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September 2024

September 19, 2024

Yours, Mine and Ours: Pro-Natalist Hyperbole to Make a Point

A few weeks ago, my nuclear family of six watched Yours, Mine and Ours, the...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

An Elegy for Tolerance?

For the politically homeless among us who continue to hope against hope that one of...

July 02, 2024

Baby Formula Feminism: On Beauvoir and “Breast is Best”

I recently wrote for Law and Liberty as part of a forum about Simone de...

May 2024

May 08, 2024

Maybe Lena Dunham’s Girls Wasn’t So Bad After All?

From 2012 to 2017, I watched Lena Dunham’s Girls as it aired on HBO. In the show,...

March 2024

March 25, 2024

“Good Will Hunting” is About Fatherhood, Not Therapy

As I perused Abigail Shrier’s new book, Bad Therapy—which argues that American kids are over-diagnosed...

November 2023

November 04, 2023

How the Synod on Synodality Report Models Real Inclusivity

The recently concluded synod on synodality could have gone in a lot of different directions—a...

September 2023

September 06, 2023

Attempts to Make Catholic Theology More Inclusive Actually Do the Opposite

Recently, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota, whose Word on Fire ministry has made him one...

April 2023

April 03, 2023

The Problem with Boys and School, And How to Fix It

I am a mom to three boys. My oldest two attend what is by today’s...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Disney’s Mulan at 25, and the Best of Can-Do Feminism

I have watched Disney's Mulan, which turns 25 years old this year, twice in the...

February 03, 2023

Marie Kondo’s Untidiness, and Mine

Last week, Marie Kondo said that she is “no longer quite as tidy” now that she...

January 2023

January 29, 2023

Why Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s 1931 Essay on Tolerance is the Key to the Synod on Synodality, and to Catholic Life in the Modern World

In October 2021, Pope Francis convened the Synod on Synodality, a two-year process of listening...

January 18, 2023

The other day, I listened to a discussion featuring Dan Savage, the longtime sex and...

January 03, 2023

Lessons from Les Misérables On Faith, Reason, and Love

Ten years ago this week, I got married. Before my wedding day, though, I went...

December 2022

December 21, 2022

Is It a Wonderful Life? Part II: Women Can Follow George Bailey’s Example, Too

At the end of It’s A Wonderful Life, Christmas is celebrated; Clarence gets his wings;...

December 09, 2022

Is It a Wonderful Life? Part I: That Depends What You Mean By Wonderful.

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) is my favorite Christmas movie. It might even be my...

December 01, 2022

Mare of Eastown, The Chair, and Universal Models for Hope in a Divided Age

Over last week’s holiday, after the Thanksgiving turkey had been eaten and the Christmas tree...

November 2022

November 18, 2022

Why It’s Hard to Raise Resilient Kids Today, and How I Try Anyway

My two older sons are less than two years apart. This past summer, newly seven...

November 11, 2022

In 2022, Pro-Life Is Too Progressive for America

Two weeks ago, I argued that my fellow pro-lifers need to start accurately framing the...

November 04, 2022

Mommy, What are Democrats and Republicans?

As we approach the mid-term elections, we’re all seeing increasingly dystopian political ads everywhere. On...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Pro-Life Is Progressive

Yesterday, I listened to Jane Coaston’s New York Times podcast, The Argument. In this podcast...

October 21, 2022

The Problem with “Girl Power” (Part II)

As I wrote in Part I, in failing to just accept that, on the curve...

October 11, 2022

The Problem with “Girl Power” (Part I)

When I was in fourth or fifth grade, I had an issue of the magazine...

October 05, 2022

Midnight in Paris: On the Human Condition and its Discontents

My husband and I will be married ten years this December. We have three kids...

September 2022

September 29, 2022

On our High-Tech Dark Age, and Hope for a Renaissance

We are at the dawn of a modern dark age that is counterintuitively reliant on...