Kids Aren’t Cheap. That Doesn’t Fully Explain Why We’re Ambivalent About Having Them.
A new book explores why what was once a default life stage now feels like an increasingly fraught choice.
In a recent Guardian article about “America’s premier pronatalists,” the journalist mentions her own assumption that &ldquo…
The Moral Confusion Around Trump’s Felony Conviction
Among the former president’s antagonists and admirers alike, there is a great deal of calling evil good and good evil.
The homepage of The New York Times announced the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges Thursday afternoon in the kind o…
Hold Your Clapbacks
C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique.
I’d just finished reading one of C. S. Lewis’s lesser-known books, Studies in Words, when I happened upon a recent New Yor…
A Theologian’s Vision of ‘Peasant’ Politics Is Surprisingly Lordly in Scope
Ephraim Radner’s “narrow” concern for protecting the mundane goods of earthly life isn’t so narrow after all.
Around 15 years ago, as part of my first or second job out of college, I was sent to serve as the token young person at a lunch hosted by …
Don’t Overexpose Kids to Mental Health Experts. Or Rule Them Out Completely.
Abigail Shrier’s critique of childhood therapy mixes a needful corrective with ideological hyperbole.
One of my four-year-old twins has a thing where he pretends he can’t do something he’s done many times before. “I can’t fi…
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