Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing Diana Lind Bold Type Books, 2020; 272 pages, $16.99 Perhaps the most famous quote about the concept of home hails from Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man”: “Home,” says one character to another, “is the place where, when you have to go […]
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From its earliest inception, the pioneers of sexology set out not simply to study and discover what is, but also to change what is to align with what they thought should or wanted to be. While we can objectively study the anatomy and physiology of the sex organs or seek to understand the mechanisms of […]
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Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness Miriam Grossman, MD Skyhorse Publishing, 2023; 360 pages, $32.50 Dr. Miram Grossman has long been a warrior on the frontlines of the culture wars surrounding sexuality and gender identity. As the proverbial battle-hardened general—having witnessed firsthand the lying dead, the maimed and […]
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Married Parents Matter In recent years, elites, the media, and popular research outlets have touted the opinion that marriage is on the way out. Children are resilient, goes the narrative, and it is far better for children to grow up on a conflict-free home. As a society, we have “outgrown” the institution of marriage. Recent […]
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Feminism Against Progress Mary Harrington Regnery, 2023; 256 pages, $29.99 Why did it take so long for feminism to happen? Feminists have no Archimedes or Newton, spurred to insight by bathwater or apples. Feminist thought was not translated into consciousness by a discovery like the Rosetta stone, or inaugurated by an explosively brilliant philosopher. […]
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On Friday, October 20, 2023, an unusual exhibit opened in the art district of Columbus, Ohio. Following in the tradition of photojournalism, in which important images are made available to the public, “Evidence: The Exhibition” took the visitor through a photo-journey of high-definition images telling the story of the 2013 Kermit Gosnell case. Though he […]
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Although I have been unable to locate the original source, many years back I read a newspaper editorial that cited the wisdom of a Native American chief. He said that in their system of governance, the chief had advisors whose job was to actually advise the chief, regardless of what the chief initially desired, with […]
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In 2020, a U.K. high court issued a ruling banning the use of puberty blocking drugs to children under aged 16 without court approval. The decision stemmed from the case of Keira Bell. A child of divorce, Bell struggled for years with depression and anxiety. She felt more comfortable in boys’ clothing, was athletic, and […]
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This special issue of The Natural Family focuses on the frequent corruption of scientific research that deals with family questions. The problem is actually not new. In a 1966 article for the academic journal Social Problems entitled “False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research,” sociologists Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin expose the errors of […]
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The goal of this paper is to address the authority of science, but before I do, first I would like to reflect on the conflict between science and religion. I hear about this all of the time and am often invited to give talks on college campuses to address the topic “How can one be […]
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