Is It Anti-Woman to Oppose Contraceptives?
This is a fair question to ask given the the increased control and freedom of choice contraceptives have provided women. It’s also a question that has been implicitly raised in the debates about the...
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Whit Stillman Returns!
Comedy of manners virtuoso Whit Stillman has a new feature film coming to theaters: Damsels in Distress. If the trailer below is any indication, his first film since 1998’s The Last Days of Disco...
Postmodern Religiosity
A mighty host of my coreligionists, ever on guard against looming criticisms threats to their faith, have for many years taken arms against academia’s latest culture-deteriorating enemies of truth: the postmodernists and deconstructionists. To...
A Child, a Death, and a Memory
Not quite a few years ago, in a room as dark as the night sky, my wife and I held our newborn daughter close to our hearts as her heartbeat slowed and she breathed...
Pluralistic Society and the Culture Wars
I detest the culture wars. I really do. My disposition toward cultural and societal difference is typically to cheer the dialogue and cherish the multitude of differing voices as we try to figure out...
Religious Liberty Only for the Majority and the Mainstream
Kevin Drum captures what I take to be the thinking of the Obama administration regarding conscience protections in the HHS mandate: “Americans don’t have any problem with contraception. American Catholics don’t have any problem...
The Catholic Bishops Are Right to Oppose the Health and Human Services Mandate
There’s a joke out there that the Obama administration has been able to do what the pope could never dream of doing: bringing almost all the U.S. bishops into agreement. As of now, 169...
In Defense of Art Pluralism
Tod Kelly makes elitist art snobbery look good. I’m something of a snob myself when it comes to the arts, and so it should come as no surprise that I agree with his case...
Understanding Anti-Choicers
Anti-choicers are trying to marginalize comprehensive health care for women basically to put us in our place, to demote us from the status of people and return us to the status of objects. […]...
A Qualified Defense of Prequels
I gather Alex Knapp is not overly fond of prequels: For reasons surpassing my understanding, current pop culture has just become entranced with prequels, prologues, and unnecessary exposition. What writers today seem to have...
