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.
Why Disney’s Culture-War Campaign Will Fail
Alexandra DeSanctis
The company’s opposition to Florida’s parental-rights law demonstrates the limits of corporate virtue signaling.
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National Review / April 5, 2022
A Bite of Italy
Alexandra DeSanctis
Every culture has its venerated culinary traditions, but we Italians savor ours with unique fervor and defend them with particular intensity.
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National Review / March 31, 2022
Why I Debate Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
We can’t avoid this debate just because we might wish it were already ‘settled.’
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National Review / March 30, 2022
Against Twitter Addiction
Alexandra DeSanctis
My lock-out strategy for limiting the distractions and damage caused by this particularly toxic flavor of social media
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National Review / March 24, 2022
Poll Finds Soaring Support for School Choice
Alexandra DeSanctis
A new survey finds that seven in ten Democrats now back education freedom.
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National Review / March 21, 2022
GOP Senator Introduces Bill Requiring Pre-Abortion Ultrasound
Alexandra DeSanctis
Abortion providers are reluctant to let women see an ultrasound because that imagery is powerful and reveals the truth about what happens in an abortion.
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National Review / March 10, 2022
Glenn Youngkin Speaks to Law Students, Emphasizes Value of State Government
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Virginia governor offered keynote remarks at the Federalist Society’s annual student symposium.
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National Review Online / March 8, 2022
Democrats’ Abortion Extremism Will Have Consequences
Alexandra DeSanctis
It is deeply damaging to our country that one of our major parties is so in thrall to the grave evil of abortion, which ends the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn human beings each year.
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Washington Examiner / March 3, 2022
Ash Wednesday Tells Us the Truth about Who We Are
Alexandra DeSanctis
In a society that prefers to ignore or deny the inevitability of death, the start of Lent reminds us of reality.
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National Review Online / March 2, 2022
Senate Democrats Fail to Pass Extreme Pro-Abortion Bill
Alexandra DeSanctis
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer scheduled the vote knowing full well that he didn’t have the support he needed to get it through.
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National Review Online / March 1, 2022