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The Yad Vashem USA Foundation, responding to the news that fashion designer John Galliano would no longer be the subject of a major exhibition tied to...
John Galliano, the designer to be featured at an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, has officially withdrawn, after...
Critics of the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to the federal Head Start program warn that they will gut the program’s comprehensive...
Last November, I was in Nashville for a quick trip to see a new pilot program that Her PLAN (Pregnancy and Life Assistance Network) was running. Among...
SBA Pro-Life America is encouraging Republicans to highlight Democratic extremism in the final stretch of the midterm elections. The...
The Trump administration is getting grief for gutting and upending Head Start -- to use verbs that have come up in coverage and commentary -- because...
I had a quick catch-up today with Jennifer Lahl, a nurse by training, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She is a powerhouse of...
I wish Cora, Dawson, and Callan could somehow meet Noah, John, Luke, Paul, and Mary. Perhaps they have. Those would be eternal encounters of the sort...
We are not all in the same office, most of us NR writers. So Abigail and I weren’t talking about human reproduction at the water cooler earlier....
I started a rant last week in The Lifeline: Not only do women not know about their own fertility — something I will safely generalize — the whole...
I’d like it to be encouraged -- and encouraging -- that so many people are taking note of how ugly the abortion-signing ceremony at the governor’s...
Never cease to be grateful for life. It is not to be taken for granted. This young woman, who I just happened to see on X, reminds us: The whole...
In an interview with Esquire, Brad Pitt says: I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just...
Abortion at any time, for any reason, is now the law in Massachusetts. Governor Maura Healey, surrounded by women, made it so at a signing ceremony...
A reader alerted me to this last night over on X: https://x.com/JillFilipovic/status/2086970529802866829 The tweet came in the midst of some...
Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...
I feel the need to begin by saying that, as anyone who knows me is well aware, I am not a fashion expert. But I am a New Yorker. The Metropolitan...
Think twice before you comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her eggs. On Saturday on social media, AOC announced to us all that she has decided to...
A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo. ...
Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment. (Sisters becoming Sisters of Life for life.)...
Every once in a while, I have a moment where I am kinda sorta on the same page as Jessica Valenti, who has the “Abortion, Every Day” Substack....
Assisted suicide is law here -- officially beginning to be implemented today, August 5 -- in New York State. You’ve likely heard by now about...
I hate the fact that whenever one writes something about antisemitism, it almost immediately becomes timely. A kosher restaurant in Montreal, Canada,...
Yesterday, as I mentioned in some temporary good news about nuns in New York getting a temporary religious-freedom reprieve from the state’s new...
Peggy Noonan writes in her latest column about the Anthony Fauci diary release and his appearance on Capitol Hill this week. She offers a reflection...
Thanks be to God the great man, Kevin “Seamus” Hasson, started the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. New York's assisted-suicide law becomes...
On August 5, New York State’s assisted-suicide law goes into effect — and so four communities of Catholic religious sisters have petitioned for a...
I know politics has mimicked children on the playground before, but there’s a particularly nasty strain of name-calling and misogyny lately. And...
What the hell is wrong with us? (I learned recently -- writing about cruelty toward Erika Kirk -- that people pay more attention when I use...
“God forgive us the sins of our youth!” Dorothy Day wrote this in 1973, in Commonweal. She wasn’t direct. And she told us that. As...
Marcion of Pontus “was one of the most dangerous men in Christian history,” according to my friend Mike Aquilina. He wanted an Old...
The Little Sisters of the Poor are still asking for Obamacare relief — 15 years later. In 2020, the Supreme Court did rule in their favor --...
We should be deeply ashamed about something that happened this weekend. “Defunding Planned Parenthood” expired. Hoopla was made about...
I just noticed this in my inbox: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson released...
Well, he’s still younger than the United States. I’d be disappointed if I found out that former President George W. Bush, hasn’t been...
The New York Times had a bizarre piece this week, "The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image," on pregnancies in the Trump...
I’ve been considering reading Jill Biden’s book and even have a copy. I think Vahaken, our literary editor, just moved it to a different pile in...
Forget looking down a slippery slope. Legally, a doctor has ended the life of a child in the Netherlands. We don’t know the exact age, but we do...
Today marks four years since the Dobbs decision. May I make a simple request? Can we please stop killing children and hurting women? The left has been...
Florida pro-life House member Kat — Kathryn, spelled correctly 😊 -- Cammack is getting lousy and really outright cruel treatment online. And, as...
There is some other news going on in England today, but don’t let an op-ed in today’s London Times on assisted suicide get lost in the...
Last week’s Lifeline newsletter was titled “Abortion Pills Are Gifts to Abusers.” A recent conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop — about the...
I found an email with a statement from Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas. You’ve likely heard her name before....
The news of Montse Alvarado going from EWTN to the Vatican to run the dicastery for communications is an exciting opportunity — for the Holy Spirit!...
The Zohran Mamdami administration in New York City is eyeing the elimination of foster-care prevention programs. Because the best kind of love comes...
A few days ago, National Review alumna Audrey Fahlberg had a piece in The Free Press talking about a possible pro-life revolt against Donald...
Everything you ever needed to know about Pope Leo — but were either afraid to or didn’t even think to begin to ask — we learned today. He...
Here’s a new conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB-GYN associated with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. She talks about their new report on...
I would love to read a Bill Buckley column about Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. Alas, I went for the next best thing. I...
Don’t worry, I’m not bringing back the old “Caught My Eye” feature. You have to listen to The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM for that. Just...