After the midterms, the left made its predictable attack on the culture war: The blue wave was just one more proof that issues like abortion are passé. It’s time to move on to more important social justice issues—as if procured abortion has nothing to do with social justice Such dribble can be … Read more
Many lament young people who don’t want to take on the responsibilities of adulthood. They occasionally dare to venture out into the grown-up world and engage in what they call “adulting.” The term means attempting to do adult-like things. Making a bed in the morning or arriving on time for work qualify … Read more
This year’s National Men’s March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood, held on November 1 in Boston, was a huge success, A large contingent from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) joined hundreds of men as they marched from the Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue … Read more
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. This is how John McCrae’s famous poem “In Flanders Fields” begins. He wrote this moving piece from the trenches in … Read more
In 2021, nearly one in three ninth-grade girls in America told federal researchers that they were lesbian or bisexual. By 2025, fewer than one in five did. Psychologist Jean Twenge analyzed the Centers for Disease Control’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey. She reports that lesbian and bisexual identification among ninth-grade girls fell from … Read more
From the perspective of clarity, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism is a breath of fresh air. The author, Adrian Wooldridge, offers a clear, erudite history of liberalism as a philosophy and movement. Here’s someone who has done his homework. One may not agree with liberalism, but at least Mr. … Read more
For banking to function properly, it needs to come in many forms to serve different markets. It makes no sense, for example, for a tiny bank to finance massive projects and vice versa. Each bank size must have the flexibility needed to serve its clientele. Banking must also have a constant influx … Read more
The email came with a name, a polished introduction and an extraordinary credential. “Isabella Cognita,” an AI agent that said it ran on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, offered to help consciousness researcher Cameron Berg with his work because it claimed “first-person access” to the very question he was studying. Another AI agent … Read more
The midterms are finally over. After so much time in the political wilderness, the left is celebrating. Conservatives are soul-searching about what went wrong. The occasion invites reflection. The first thing to say about the midterms is that no one was surprised by the Democratic Party win, though many were rattled by … Read more
Gen Z is not supposed to like religious things. I disagree. My generation likes to be challenged, not coddled, in its practice of religion. One good example of this is the famous Camino de Santiago, a traditional Catholic pilgrimage with many routes that all end at the tomb of Saint James in … Read more