Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950 Paul Ginsborg Yale University Press, 2014; 444 pages, $35.00 Narratives of modern Europe, argues history professor Paul Ginsborg of the University of Florence, have commonly left families “off stage,” “hidden from history.” In Family Politics, he seeks to insert the story of the European family during the […]

Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences Lawrence S. Mayer & Paul R. McHugh The New Atlantis, Fall 2016 Lawrence Mayer and Paul McHugh, authors of the new special report Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences published earlier this year by The New Atlantis, close their […]

Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade Daniel K. Williams Oxford University Press, 2016; 400 pages, $29.95 This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital and abortion centers to meet the minimum legal standards for an outpatient surgical […]

Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition) Russell D. Moore Crossway Books, 2015; 256 pages, $17.99 Dr. Moore shares that he originally wrote Adopted for Life as a resource to lessen the influx of office visits from families with questions on orphan care and adoption. Ultimately, […]

Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death J. David Velleman Open Book Publishers, 2015; 232 pages, £29.95 It is interesting that in a time of seemingly unprecedented opportunities for unfettered individual choice, when few of the social constraints traditionally indicted as barriers to human happiness remain in place, two of our more pressing political campaigns […]