Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
Noble Rituals
What are rituals? Rituals are not just routines. Mere routines are pragmatic and instrumental. Rituals transcend routines…
Goodbye, Childless Elites
The U.S. birthrate has declined to record lows in recent years, well below population replacement rates. So…
P. D. James and Designer Parkas for Chihuahuas
P D. James’s detective novels, featuring Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, are every bit as…
When No-Fault Divorce Turns Children into Commodities
I anticipate that the most controversial part of my forthcoming book, The Desecration of Man, will be…
I’ll Be Home for Christmas?
A recent essay in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column has sparked a flurry of think…
How to Become a Low-Tech Family
Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…
Why Are Divorce Memoirs Trending?
Divorce rates may be down in the U.S. from their all-time high in the 1980s (although so…
Children Are Gifts, Not Products
In late September, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University announced a breakthrough that could reshape the…
Home, Not Real Estate
As a cultural touchstone, Saturday Night Live has been irrelevant for at least a decade now, or…
The Problem of Population Decline (ft. Georgina Kiss-Kozma)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Georgina Kiss-Kozma joins…
The Church’s Answer to the World (ft. Carter Griffin)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Fr. Carter Griffin…
Finding Private Roy
By the late 1970s, when I attended public high school in rural, blue-collar Central New York, more…
Protestants Against the Pill
Ben Jefferies is an Anglican priest who says he knows that one of his parishioners throws away…
Reclaiming Time from Work
“Greedy work” is a concept attributed to economist Claudia Goldin, but its intellectual roots can be traced…
