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A Spot-On Response to the Met’s Galliano Exhibition Cancellation

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...

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Met Costume Exhibition Plans Collapse as Designer with History of Antisemitism Withdraws

John Galliano, the designer to be featured at an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, has officially withdrawn, after...

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Restoring Head Start’s Children and Families First Mission

Critics of the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to the federal Head Start program warn that they will gut the program’s comprehensive...

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Thank You, Lord, for Dolly Parton

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...

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Will Republicans Work to Expose Democrats’ Abortion Extremism?

SBA Pro-Life America is encouraging Republicans to highlight Democratic extremism in the final stretch of the midterm elections.   The...

25.08.2026 10

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Giving Head Start a New Start: ACF Responds to Critics with New Look at Recent History

The Trump administration is getting grief for gutting and upending Head Start -- to use verbs that have come up in coverage and commentary -- because...

25.08.2026 10

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Making Sense of the Fertility Frenzy

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...

21.08.2026 10

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From Noah, John, Luke, Paul & Mary to Cora, Dawson & Callan

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...

21.08.2026 10

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About Alternatives to IVF

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....

20.08.2026 10

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The Shameless, Unrelenting Scandal of Women’s Medicine

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...

20.08.2026 10

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From the Supreme Court to Philadelphia to Boston: Is Abortion in America Ever Going to Be Extreme Enough for Us?

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...

13.08.2026 10

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A Pro-Life Thing That Caught My Eye: Abortion in Massachusetts, Prenatal Diagnosis, and Gratitude for Life

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...

13.08.2026 10

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Matters of Life and Death

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...

11.08.2026 10

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Massachusetts Makes Way for More Death

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...

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Nun Sense: Sometimes a Life of the Fullest Freedom Is Mistaken for Sexism

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...

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Hawthorne Sisters Fight for Freedom — and Life

Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...

11.08.2026 10

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Fashionable Antisemitism at the Met Museum

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...

10.08.2026 10

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AOC and Her Eggs: A Cynical — and Winning — Play?

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...

10.08.2026 10

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Mary Eberstadt’s Upcoming Novel, Washington Zoo

A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo.  ...

07.08.2026 10

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The Sisters of Life: The Pro-Life Nuns with the Stairway to Heaven

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.)...

06.08.2026 10

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Telling the Truth About Todd Blanche and Abortion

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....

06.08.2026 10

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My Friend Dovie and New York’s Assisted-Suicide Cruelty

Assisted suicide is law here -- officially beginning to be implemented today, August 5 -- in New York State. You’ve likely heard by now about...

05.08.2026 10

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Fighting the New Antisemitism Every Single Day

I hate the fact that whenever one writes something about antisemitism, it almost immediately becomes timely. A kosher restaurant in Montreal, Canada,...

04.08.2026 10

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A Marine’s Legacy for Life Fighting Assisted Suicide in New York Can Still Inspire — and Challenge Us

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...

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Peggy Noonan on Fauci’s 5th/Diaries and Our Societal Chernobyl

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...

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New York Issues Nuns Temporary Religious-Liberty Relief as Legal Assisted-Suicide Regulations Go Live

Thanks be to God the great man, Kevin “Seamus” Hasson, started the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. New York's assisted-suicide law becomes...

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New York Nuns vs. the Empire State’s Culture of Death

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...

22.07.2026 10

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Mocking Women’s Looks Only Makes the Mockers Look Bad

I know politics has mimicked children on the playground before, but there’s a particularly nasty strain of name-calling and misogyny lately. And...

21.07.2026 10

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No, Justice Amy Coney Barrett Most Definitely Should Not Resign from the U.S. Supreme Court

What the hell is wrong with us?   (I learned recently -- writing about cruelty toward Erika Kirk -- that people pay more attention when I use...

15.07.2026 10

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Dorothy Day and Her Abortion

“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...

07.07.2026 10

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There Are No Christians Without Jews

Marcion of Pontus “was one of the most dangerous men in Christian history,” according to my friend Mike Aquilina. He wanted an Old...

07.07.2026 10

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Nuns in Court, Again: The Ongoing — Unnecessary — Little Sisters Ordeal

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 --...

07.07.2026 10

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Shameful Days in America: Funding Planned Parenthood Again

We should be deeply ashamed about something that happened this weekend.  “Defunding Planned Parenthood” expired.   Hoopla was made about...

06.07.2026 20

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When Does Lyndsey Fifield Get Her Post-Platner-Campaign Apology?

I just noticed this in my inbox:   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson released...

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Happy Birthday, W.!

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...

06.07.2026 20

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Pregnant Women in the Spotlight

The New York Times had a bizarre piece this week, "The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image," on pregnancies in the Trump...

25.06.2026 10

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Dr. Biden and Summer Reading

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...

25.06.2026 10

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Grim Report: Euthanasia of a Child in the Netherlands

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...

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Post-Dobbs Medical Malpractice in Texas

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...

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Representative Kat Cammack and Her Baby: (Social) Media Cruelty Toward a Mourning Mother

Florida pro-life House member Kat — Kathryn, spelled correctly 😊 -- Cammack is getting lousy and really outright cruel treatment online. And, as...

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Why Is England Suicidal?

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...

22.06.2026 20

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Abortion Pills Help Men Behave Gravely

Last week’s Lifeline newsletter was titled “Abortion Pills Are Gifts to Abusers.” A recent conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop — about the...

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Refunding Planned Parenthood in America?

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....

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Women Rule: A Casual History of Women and the Catholic Church with Bronwen McShea

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!...

09.06.2026 20

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No Room for Helping Kids Stay Out of Foster Care in the Big Apple Socialist Inn?

The Zohran Mamdami administration in New York City is eyeing the elimination of foster-care prevention programs. Because the best kind of love comes...

08.06.2026 20

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Trump? Not Pro-Life? Surely You Jest!

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...

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Marvelous Montse!: A Chicagoan Pope Names a Mexican-Born Daughter of the Church to Lead Communications at the Vatican

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...

02.06.2026 20

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The Wild West of the Online Abortion Pill Business

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...

29.05.2026 20

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God and Man on Artificial Intelligence

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...

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A Few Things About Magnifica Humanitas That Caught My Eye

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...

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