Politics

Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America 2
- Literature, Culture, Politics
- June 28, 2023
Founded in 1922, PEN America has long been considered a bastion of free expression in the United States. The organization professes to hold tight to the virtue of writers freely expressing themselves, without the fear of censorship: PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United
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Pride? The Last Thing We Need More Of 6
- Politics, Culture, Western Civilization
- June 26, 2023
Pop singers and actors can be reliably counted on to engage in voluminous virtue signaling around Pride Month. One can almost imagine directives going out telling celebrities to promote the LGBTQ ideology. No surprise then that, for example, Taylor Swift did what she did at a concert recently: Her concerts, she proclaimed, are “a celebratory
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Gay Men Given Free IVF and Surrogates Under Proposed California Bill 3
- Politics, Science
- June 23, 2023
Once understood as a simple law of nature, a man’s inability to fall pregnant may soon be classed as “infertility” in California under proposed legislation that would entitle LGBT couples to employer-paid infertility treatments. “Fertility equality” is the Orwellian phrase being used to justify the Golden State’s new logic-defying bill. Passed in the Senate last
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A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators 2
- Education, Politics
- June 22, 2023
Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a child-centered educational solution for local families. It was late 2021 and the parents realized that nearly two years of pandemic policies had left their kids behind both academically and socially. There weren’t a lot of
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Pride Goes Before a Fall 2
- Culture, Politics
- June 21, 2023
Named for Juno, the Roman goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth, June remains one of the most popular months for weddings. Its temperate climate also wins accolades, as from poet James Russell Lowell: “And what is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days.” In our present age, June
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Is It True That 99% of Women Believe That Their Abortion Was the Right Decision?2
- Politics, Family, Science
- June 20, 2023
How do women see their past abortions? The received wisdom is that abortion equals unwanted pregnancy: most women want their abortion and are satisfied with their decision. When women are asked at the clinic to participate in follow-up research (as in the famous “Turnaway Study”), researchers cite figures as high as 99 percent for “decision rightness”, interpreted
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