Paul Tuns, Review: The Mystery of Joy by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius, $18.95, 241 pages) Version 1.0.0 Peter Kreeft’s latest book offers 95 pensées about joy, short, (two to four page) thoughts on what joy is, and isn’t. Joy, says Kreeft, “is to happiness what happiness is to pleasure: the next step up.” According to Kreeft, way up, up to heaven. He [...]
T.S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy: James Matthew Wilson (Wiseblood Books, USD$8, 66 pages) T.S. Eliot is probably the greatest literary and social critic of the 21st century, as well as one of its greatest poets. There is no shortage of treatments of his work, but James Matthew Wilson’s T.S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy is a worthy edition to any library. Eliot was [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Notre Dame University Press, $38, 195 pages) The novelist and essayist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is best-known as a Soviet dissident who spent time in communist concentration camps known as the gulag, of which he became their most famous chronicler. He is one of [...]
June is commencement season, a time when the graduating classes of colleges and universities receive parting words of wisdom from eminent guests who enjoy general respect and wide repute. But, as we all know, such speeches have become joyless and platitudinous affairs, featuring the dreary rehearsal of predictable commonplaces. This was not always the case: 50 years ago, University of Chicago undergraduates [...]
From the editor’s desk: We live in an age in which far too many people live lives of anguish because they lack meaning or are searching for it in the wrong places. In Be not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (Princeton, $24.99, 377 pages), John Kaag and Jonathan Van Belle say that seekers looking for meaning could do [...]
Paul Tuns Catholic Bishops of Saskatchewan (CBS) released a pastoral letter, “Dying with Hope: Living and Walking Together,” on March 25 calling for a Christian response to so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. In 2017, the CBS released a pastoral letter, “On Living through our Dying,” in response to the legalization of euthanasia the previous year. The bishops said in its latest letter, [...]
Interim Staff: On April 8, the Halton Catholic District School Board rejected a motion to prevent school funds from supporting abortion, contraception, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell experiments in a lopsided 2-5 vote against the motion. Oakville school trustee Helena Karabela tabled the amendment to the HCDSB Fundraising Activities Policy to ensure no school funds are used to support abortion or other [...]
Oswald Clark: A pro-abortion woman who attacked a Live Action journalist in New York City has been charged with assault. New York City police have charged Brianna Rivers with second-degree assault after she attacked pro-life journalist Savannah Craven Antao during a man-on-the-street interview in an assault that required hospitalization. The April 3 assault was caught on tape by Craven Antao’s husband who [...]
Paul Tuns: On March 21, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities condemned Canada’s euthanasia regime, urging the repeal of amendments to the country’s so-called Medical Assistance in Dying law that allows the killing of non-terminally ill individuals. In remarks published by the Committee, the UN urged Canada to repeal its 2021 MAiD expansion legislation that allowed those [...]
Oswald Clark: The Trump administration has condemned the United Kingdom for arresting and convicting Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, a pro-life activist who held a sign that said “Here to talk, if you want,” outside a British abortuary. Tossici-Bolt was found guilty by the Poole Magistrates’ Court for violating a Public Spaces Protection Order on two occasions in March 2025. While the grandmother and [...]
The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment Steven Gow Calabresi and Gary Lawson (Encounter, $52, 468 pages) In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese III addressed the annual meeting of the American Bar Association when he said that under his leadership the Department of Justice would “resurrect the original meaning of the constitutional provisions and statutes as the only [...]
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Paul Tuns: On April 9, Campaign Life Coalition youth coordinator Kim Headley provided a defense of the preborn at a meeting of the United Nations’ Commission on Population and Development (CPD), during proceedings dominated by pro-abortion and population control advocates. Last month, the UN held its 58th session of the Commission on Population and Development and Headley made her remarks at a [...]
Paul Tuns: Long-time Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, suffered a stroke on March 8 and is now recovering at home after a brief hospitalization. The Interim is respecting Hughes’s privacy and will not report details of his illness or recovery, but because of his outsized role in this paper and the Canadian pro-life movement, we wanted to let readers know [...]
Paul Tuns: According to data released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information on March 25, there were 101,553 abortions committed in Canada in 2023, up from 97,211 in 2022 and 87,485 in 2021. It was the first time since 2015 that the number of abortions in Canada exceeded 100,000, when there were 100,104 abortions. A Campaign Life Coalition Youth tweet put [...]