August 26, 2025
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
I began this series of articles by describing a destination wedding that made me think of Thomas Jefferson. As I...
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August 26, 2025
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
The first time people in New Orleans truly understood their refrigerators was the summer of 2005, after Hurricane...
August 26, 2025
What Comes After Gender Affirmation?
One day in the summer of 2023, when Irene’s sixteen-year-old daughter had come home so drunk she was slurring her...
May 20, 2025
The Doctor as Priest
The instinct for self-preservation, typically buried under the distractions of daily life, surfaces when pondering all...
May 20, 2025
The Real City of the Future
There is a profound paradox in great cities today. We are accustomed to thinking of our cities as engines of creation,...
May 20, 2025
What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?
Nature makes mistakes. It endows us with degenerative diseases, missing limbs, faulty senses, warped spines, cleft...
May 20, 2025
Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins
In “Darwin Among the Machines,” a letter to an editor published in 1863, the English novelist Samuel Butler...
May 20, 2025
What Keeps the Lights On
Put a bagel in a toaster oven and push a button. In a few seconds, heating elements inside the oven glow red and heat...
May 20, 2025
Families are not about moving fast and breaking things
“All of history is a war between the family and the state,” Katherine Boyle told her audience at the American...
May 20, 2025
We need a pro-family state, not an anti-state family
I was privileged to teach Katherine Boyle when she was an undergraduate at Georgetown University, and I am both...