Alexandra DeSanctis
Fellow
EPPC Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on culture and family issues, with a particular focus on abortion policy and pro-life advocacy, as a member of the Life and Family Initiative.
EPPC Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on culture and family issues, with a particular focus on abortion policy and pro-life advocacy, as a member of the Life and Family Initiative.
DeSanctis has been a writer at National Review since 2016, where she covers politics, elections, culture, and abortion policy. She first joined NR as a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism with the National Review Institute and since 2018 has been a staff writer. She has been a regular commentator on NR’s podcast “The Editors.”
Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. She speaks for high-school and college audiences across the country about abortion and the pro-life movement.
DeSanctis is co-author, with Ryan T. Anderson, of the 2022 book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing.
D.C. Police Arrest Pro-Life Activists for Writing on Public Sidewalk
Alexandra DeSanctis
Someone must be held accountable for the apparent mistreatment two pro-life demonstrators faced — especially after city officials spent months allowing rioters to get away with defacing and destroying private property throughout D.C. in the name of social justice.
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National Review Online / August 3, 2020
Biden and Taxpayer-Funded Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
On taxpayer-funded abortion, as with abortion policy more generally, Joe Biden is out of step not only with the average American, but with voters in his own party.
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National Review Online / July 31, 2020
We Need More than a Defense of Religious Free Exercise
Alexandra DeSanctis
While religious Americans might be able to achieve small victories around the edges by relying on the First Amendment to protect us within our small spheres, we will continue losing the cultural battle in the long run if we decline to defend our beliefs on their own terms.
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National Review Online / July 13, 2020
In Defense of Saints and Statues
Alexandra DeSanctis
The mob-led campaign to erase Father Junipero Serra illustrates the problem with the crusade against public monuments.
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National Review Online / July 10, 2020
Another Victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor
Alexandra DeSanctis
The belief that the government, or employers compelled by the government, ought to subsidize contraception stems from a fundamentally incorrect, irrational view of contraception as a necessary component of holistic health care.
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National Review Online / July 8, 2020
The Productivity Pandemic
Alexandra DeSanctis
Though staying occupied during the pandemic has been a bit more of a challenge than usual, maybe it has reminded us, too, that it’s okay not to be always so busy, that a day of less productivity won’t kill us.
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National Review - July 6, 2020 issue / June 25, 2020
The Least Shocking Endorsement Ever
Alexandra DeSanctis
In a bit of news that surely everyone saw coming, Planned Parenthood has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
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National Review Online / June 17, 2020
Your Silence Isn’t Enough
Alexandra DeSanctis
The social-justice Left is pioneering a new tactic for shutting down dissent and amplifying groupthink.
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National Review Online / June 7, 2020
Identity Politics Excommunicates Its Heretics
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Left’s worldview functions as a religion, punishing or coercing dissenters and silencing heretics.
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National Review Online / June 2, 2020
Clarence Thomas, Living Proof of the American Dream
Alexandra DeSanctis
A new PBS documentary, Created Equal, shows how Thomas went from abject poverty to his seat on the Supreme Court.
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National Review Online / May 28, 2020