Culture

‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- March 6, 2024
Recently, Mother Jones ran a pair of articles (here and here) on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos produced via IVF procedures should be considered children, in effect criminalizing the routine destruction of unused or “defective” embryos. The articles lament the perceived unjust consequences of treating human embryos as people. The authors, Kiera
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Beauty as if It Mattered 15
- Culture
- March 6, 2024
“What can I do about what is going on in this country?” This is a question I commonly hear from patriotic Americans. Typically, they’re referring to ways they can make some meaningful change where they can see the results. In the past, I’ve often been at a loss as to what to say. Some of
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What the Alabama IVF Ruling Says About the Right to Life 3
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- February 29, 2024
A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last week has been the cause of immense hyperventilating in the mainstream press—and the predictable invocation of scare terms like “theocracy” and “Christian nationalism.” In LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., a fertility clinic that neglected to properly secure its frozen embryo nursery from a prying patient
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What Drove Last Year’s Biggest Population Growth in US History 2
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- February 28, 2024
Immigration is behind the biggest annual population increase in the history of the United States, according to an independent research firm. “US population grew +3.8M in 2023 – the largest one-year increase in US history,” tweeted Eric Finnigan of John Burns Research and Consulting (JBREC) earlier this month. “The surge is likely short-lived as its
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The American Dream: What It Means and Why It’s Important 3
- Culture
- February 27, 2024
Have you ever known a friend who said, “Next year I’m moving to Rome and living the Italian Dream?” How about a buddy who over coffee declared, “I can’t stand this country anymore. I’m off to Ankara, where I can live the Turkish Dream?” Or an uncle who slapped his open hand on the table
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From Wants to Wealth: Thoughts on Contentment 5
- Culture, Featured
- February 26, 2024
My Pennsylvania-born mother owned a black napkin holder sporting an Amish woman and an inscription: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart” (“We grow too soon old and too late smart”). Recently, I had reason to remember that adage. Because my children have trouble figuring out what to give me for my birthday,
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