The Human Life Review

My college son has an answer: Guys and girls his age tend to separate along political and religious affiliations and this dynamic leads to fewer social engagements and meeting of minds and hearts.

He offered this insight when I asked why young people are reportedly having less premarital sex (which is good), getting married later or not at all, and having chil...

At my New York high school in the 1970s, Brother Andrew would tell a joke to incoming freshmen: “I used to know a little Greek  . . .  but he died.” As street-smart teens, we rolled our eyes, but he knew better than we did. At class reunions, even 50 years on, we all remember Brother Andrew and his corny joke.

In minor seminary some 20 years after hi...

Pro-life advocates have spent years combatting the rising surge of chemical abortion drugs, which now make up over 60% of abortions in the United States. Admirable efforts have been made to expose the dangers of the pill, as well as the consequences that mail-order abortion is enabling nationwide: coercion and abuse.

Unfortunately, these me...

Public protests, for the most part, are attempts to awaken society to a moral position about which society is seemingly asleep. One thing protestors are not at all interested in is dialogue. Their position is deemed ironclad and has no need of being challenged. Among the many blessings of liberty in the United States is the right to protest. This does not mean, of co...

For prolifers and everyone else, telling the truth is much harder than finding fault. Academia, for example, is filled with brilliant insights, but they are diluted with banal critiques of other professors. Religious and political hypocrisy is so common that even to complain about it feels tedious. Too often in large organizations, saying “no” is always safe and the ...