Secularisation is decimating the world’s largest faith group. We live in precarious times. The world is changing in ways we could not fathom a short forty years ago. Believing Christians, pro-family advocates and patriotic folks are fast becoming today’s marginalised communities. For centuries the West, aka “Western Christendom”, was a dynamic and expanding enterprise that […]
Spain is on the way to recognising 16 types of families, none of them the traditional nuclear family. The Respect for Marriage Act has sailed through the US Senate, amidst great jubilation. Twelve Republicans, including former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, voted with Democrats to pass the legislation by a vote of 61-36. Now it goes to […]
Serious pro-family initiatives are underway. I wish I had a dollar for every time some two-bit politician blathers about “family values.” Name a politician who is not for family values. Name one who is for terrorism or drug abuse. You get the picture. In today’s “democracy”, such trash talk is stock-in-trade for pandering to a pathetic, pervasive bread-and-circuses mentality. […]
Malcolm and Simone Collins have a game plan for pulling humanity back from the brink. This month, the 8 billionth child entered the world. Demographers believe that the world’s population is moving towards 10 billion. But at some point, the curve will begin to move downwards. Families will shrink. People everywhere (except sub-Saharan Africa) will […]
‘Parenthood is sublime. It is the greatest and most transcendent of human achievements.’ According to the best guesses of those tracking the population of the world, last week the world passed a major milestone: the 8 billionth person was born on earth. The global population is projected to continue rising for the next few decades, and then […]
It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. With all the division and vitriol in American politics and culture nowadays, some people are asking whether the United States might literally come apart. And since “some people” includes my editor, I draw upon my professional training as a historian to say, yes, it absolutely could, […]
Creating a healthy marriage culture is not a job for governments alone. This is a lightly edited excerpt from the Witherspoon Institute’s recently published book, Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles (Second Edition). When it comes to family life, the great paradox of our time is this: every society that we think of as generally […]
School standards have fallen for the sake of political correctness over effective and dependable education. That is dangerous. In early October, my alma mater made headlines after it decided to fire chemistry professor Dr Maitland Jones Jr after 82 of his students signed a petition noting that his organic chemistry class was “too hard.” The students accused […]
European regulation of online speech will be a speed bump for the new owner of Twitter. After a complicated, winding, and tense standoff between Musk and the Twitter board, as well as a pending legal trial at a Delaware Chancery Court, the eccentric billionaire finally agreed to abide by his original agreement and purchase Twitter […]
Stimulating stories of how the pursuit of truth led to God. Faith and Reason: Philosophers Explain Their Return to Catholicism Brian Besong and Jonathan Fuqua (eds.) | Ignatius Press 2019, 289 pages Faith and Reason consists of ten chapters, written by ten different philosophers, plus an introduction by the editors and a foreword by Francis Beckwith, […]
Following his uncontested run at the top job, Rishi Sunak acquires the less-than-coveted title of second successive un-elected British prime minister to take office in 2022. However, coming from Punjabi heritage, he also takes on the more esteemed title of the nation’s first British Asian leader. Sunak was born in the southern English port city […]
Despite its lethal past, nuclear energy is the clean and cost-effective power source we need. In the fall 2022 issue of the technology-and-society journal The New Atlantis, authors Thomas and Nate Hochman examine the pros and cons of building new nuclear power plants in the United States. The case of nuclear power is fraught with political […]
CANDACE OWENS: THE GREATEST LIE EVER SOLD | GEORGE FLOYD AND THE RISE OF BLM FULL DOCUMENTARY 2022 As evidenced by the wild success of Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, American culture is obsessed with criminals, and all too frequently such individuals enjoy cult-like status. Charles Manson infamously received love letters while in prison, and copycat crimes are […]
Statistics published in JAMA Pediatrics are horrifying The deeper you dig in the dark warrens of adolescent transgender medicine, the more convinced you become that the doctors who operate on young girls are criminal or insane or both. I know that sounds extreme. But how can a decent person read the bare statistics in a […]
How Western culture has been moulded by faith. Faith Challenges Culture: A Reflection of the Dynamics of Modernity Paul O’Callaghan | Lexington Books | 2021, 142 pp In this terrific book, Dubliner Fr Paul O’Callaghan, a lecturer in the school of theology in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, presents a succinct […]