A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry (Polity, $19.95, 165 pages) In 2022, feminist journalist Louise Perry wrote The Case against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, which poignantly prosecuted the case against the notion that the Sexual Revolution liberated women. She has updated and adapted her book to gear it toward [...]
Oswald Clark: In August and September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tackled four pro-life and pro-family issues: fetal tissue research, organ transplantation, the abortion pill mifepristone, and gender ideology. In September, it was announced that HHS rejected the renewal of 17 grants for fetal tissue research. In his first administration, Trump had [...]
Paul Tuns: James C. Dobson, a child psychologist who founded Focus on the Family after seeing first-hand the toll of the social tumult of the 1960s, died on August 21 at the age of 89. A cause of death was not provided by the family’s spokesman. Dobson was an evangelical Christian, the son of a preacher in the Church of the Nazarene, [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University by a gunman opposed to Kirk’s political views. Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to advocate for conservative positions on high school and university campuses. TPUSA hosts annual conventions such as the Student Action Summit and Young Women’s Leadership Summit, and organized Kirk’s [...]
Special editorial: For Charlie Kirk, the event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 began like so many others. In front of a crowd of about 3000, the Turning Point USA founder and president engaged in spirited debate, fielding questions from all quarters, taking on all comers. Kirk’s responses were typical: Drawing on conservative values and, even more, on his sincere and [...]
By J.M. Glover India’s 2025 March for Life This may have only been India’s four March for Life, but the August 9 event reflected a joy and creativity, backed by a large contingent of Catholic prelates and religious that other countries may well ponder for their own future March. The day began with Mass at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Bangalore, with [...]
From the editor's desk One of the necessary ingredients to reversing tanking fertility rates is restoring the vaunted place of motherhood and one way to do that is to make life easier for moms and families. Katherine Boyle, general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, tweeted some policy ideas on how to accomplish this: “Here’s some super easy things states [...]
Hailey Simpson: On July 2, 2025, the City Council of Edmonton unanimously passed limitations on the distribution of imagery to residential properties in an attempt to censor from public view graphic content that depicts abortion. In effect, this impacts pro-life organizations, specifically their usage of victim photography. The motion to make amendments to the community standards bylaw was brought forward by Ward [...]
Hailey Simpson: The Wilberforce Project called on the Government of Alberta to establish that the value of all human life is upheld in provincial prenatal care. The Alberta-based pro-life group recently released a policy report, Deadly Discrimination, correlating prenatal screening to discriminatory practices within the province. The group accuses healthcare providers pressuring women into abortions after congenital condition diagnoses. While becoming common [...]
Tanis Cortens: A pregnant Georgia woman whom doctors had declared brain-dead was taken off life support after the caesarean section birth of her son. Adriana Smith, 31, was almost nine weeks pregnant in early February when she began experiencing severe headaches. Her mother, April Newkirk, reported that Smith went to Northside Hospital, where she was given medication and sent home. The next [...]
Kesiah Beere: On June 3, the Trump administration rescinded a directive from the former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary that expanded the scope of Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) services and required abortion to be provided as emergency care in hospitals. EMTALA, enacted in 1986, is a U.S. federal law that guarantees a person’s access to emergency medical care [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life It turns out I have something in common with the greatest golfer in the world and, no, it has nothing to do with our abilities. Scottie Scheffler makes the game look easy and has earned tens of millions of dollars playing it. On my end, golf has every right to get a [...]
Donald DeMarco: “Dialogue” is a word that brings to mind fairness and respect for both sides of the debate. For the most part, however, it is a concerted attempt on the part of one side to achieve a triumphant monologue. In other words, certain people who propose dialogue use the word as camouflage to conceal their own intentions. I once taught a [...]
Josie Luetke: In the Spring, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that the province must legally recognize multi-parent families. The plaintiffs were La Coalition des familles LGBT+ and three families—a man and two women and their four kids; a lesbian couple and the sperm donor who wants to be a part of his child’s life; and an infertile woman, her husband, and [...]
Gideon Spevak: A trend has been forming within Western democratic institutions, one that contradicts the democratic ideal of such bodies: Elected officials face censure and being stripped of their rights (and obligations) as members of elected bodies to represent their constituents — at the hands of their fellow members, with whom they often find ideological differences. In May 2025, the U.S. Supreme [...]