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No, Illegal Immigration Won’t Fix America’s Fertility Crisis

The birth rate will go up if Americans prioritize having and raising their own children, not because they have foreigners to change diapers. 

05.01.2026 20

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Contrary To The New York Times, Homeschooling Is Still A Much Better Alternative To Public Schools

Block claims to just want to protect children from abuse and neglect, but his nebulous ideas of what that means would put all homeschoolers at risk of...

19.12.2025 40

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Anti-Natalists At NYT Want You To Think IVF Is The Only Way To Have A Career

Establishing a norm of egg freezing and IVF will further entrench the view that marriage is a capstone in life, rather than a foundation.

21.11.2025 5

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Why Christians Should Build Cathedrals

There is nothing vainglorious about giving glory to God with the best works of our minds and our hands.

18.11.2025 3

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Democrats Choose Supporting LGBT Activists Over Stopping Child Rape

We have yet to find a point at which the left will actually stop its slide down the slippery slope of gay rights.

31.10.2025 10

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Why Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Sewer Socialism’ Won’t Help Poor People

A revival of 'sewer socialism' would require Leftists to change their entire worldview. This seems unlikely.

22.10.2025 7

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The Rainbow People Are Not Going To Leave Your Kids Alone

Hurting Netflix for promoting perversion is not enough to heal our culture. Those who see the evil of what Netflix is doing need to go beyond...

10.10.2025 5

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Women Are Not Defective Men, No Matter What Feminists Tell You

Leah Libresco Sargeant’s new book, The Dignity of Dependence, makes a powerful case for celebrating the unique qualities that make women special.

29.09.2025 4

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The Best Dating App Is Your Local Church

The best dating app can only start relationships. Churches can nurture and sustain them. 

08.09.2025 4

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Why Sex And The City Could Never Be A Fairy Tale

Sex and the City feminism sees living like a bad man as the key to empowering women to live the good life.

18.08.2025 4

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There Is No Way To Moderate Transgenderism. It Must Be Destroyed

A New York Times author quietly made a series of admissions that, only a few years ago, would have been dismissed as reactionary bigotry.

12.08.2025 8

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NYT Author Who Destroyed Her Marriage Wonders Where The Good Men Went

Sexual liberalism presumes that we thrive as autonomous pleasure seekers, unconstrained by norms or obligations. But this is false.

31.07.2025 8

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Why Prudes Are The Only Ones Consistently Having Good Sex

Human flourishing consists less of discovering who we are than of becoming who we ought to be.

17.07.2025 7

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The 10 Years Since Obergefell Have Proven Its Critics Right

Opposing same-sex marriage is essential to defending the truth about human nature and about how we flourish and are fulfilled.

20.06.2025 9

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Pride Month Is In Retreat, But We Need More Consistent Sexual Ethics

It is impossible to build a culture of human flourishing atop an ethic of self-indulgence because that self-indulgence slides to new lows.

19.06.2025 4

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False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

A new book details how the sexual revolution has backfired and has severely damaged Western society.

02.06.2025 6

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The Left Can’t Admit The Sexual Revolution Was Harmful Without Admitting Christians Were Right

Religious conservatives are the only people to have retained a functioning normative anthropology that can both explain why the sexual revolution went...

23.05.2025 4

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Advice For The Class Of 2025: Never Put Your Hope In Earthly Kingdoms

From newly minted college Marxists to MAGA social media, many of those who are investing their hearts and hopes in politics are looking for things...

02.05.2025 4

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Largest-Known Abortion Pill Study Shows They’re Way More Dangerous Than We Knew

'The real-world rate of serious adverse effects following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as' the drug label suggests.

29.04.2025 4

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Democrats Have A Manhood Problem, In More Ways Than One

Almost no one believes the absurd tenets of transgender ideology. They pretend to believe because everyone around them is also pretending to believe.

24.03.2025 7

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Detrans Awareness Day Heralds A Reckoning For Transgender ‘Medicine’ Fraudsters

Detransitioners' lawsuits against the medical systems that hurt them could finally undo the industry’s embrace of transgenderism.

14.03.2025 7

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Self-Government Requires Governing Ourselves

Brad Littlejohn’s smart and provocative book, 'Called to Freedom,' examines the tension between Christian teaching and the secular ideal of...

06.03.2025 4

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IVF Won’t MAGA

A giant government handout to an unaccountable and often evil industry is not the way to make America great again.

25.02.2025 5

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Transgender Ideology Is In Retreat, But We Must Fight Until It’s Destroyed

Those who have staked their livelihoods and reputations on transgender ideology are not going to give up quietly and go away.

18.02.2025 7

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The Woke Fever Broke, So Why Is Bezos Still Banning Ryan Anderson’s Book On Transgenderism?

When Harry Became Sally is still banned on Amazon, even as the vibes have shifted and Trump successfully campaigned against gender ideology.

31.01.2025 10

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Christianity Is The Cure For Critical Theory

Carl Trueman's latest book, 'To Change All Worlds,' examines how critical theory became the dominant ideology and what can be done about it.

27.01.2025 6

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Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

As Screwtape told Wormwood, 'The aim is to guide each sex away from those members of the other with whom spiritually helpful, happy, and fertile...

30.12.2024 6

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As Americans’ Tolerance For Wokeness Dies, The Left’s Appetite For Violence Only Grows

Americans in general want a return to law and order, but the left wants the blood of its enemies.

12.12.2024 5

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