Why Animal Lovers Should Abhor Planned Parenthood
Mary Eberstadt
For whatever those videos reveal of the inner workings of the abortion industry, they point as well to this related truth: Defending animal welfare while remaining adamantly pro-choice with respect to the abortion of human animals is not morally and intellectually sustainable. As an argument retaining any credibility, it’s over.
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National Review - August 24, 2015 issue / August 12, 2015
‘The Silencing’ of the American College
Mary Eberstadt
Compared to 2014’s pugilistic commencement season, 2015’s pomp and circumstance have seemed positively decorous—at least on the surface.
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TIME Ideas / May 26, 2015
The New Intolerance: An Adaptation of the First Annual First Things Lecture
Mary Eberstadt
With the tide of secularism rising, Christians in particular are faced with the challenge of protecting human dignity, objective moral values, religious liberty, and authentic freedom in the face of growing hostility toward religious faith and religious believers.
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First Things - March 2015 issue / February 21, 2015
Jailhouse Feminism
Mary Eberstadt
Feminism is not a juggernaut of defiant liberationists successfully playing offense. It is instead a terribly deformed but profoundly felt protective reaction to the sexual revolution itself.
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National Review - March 9, 2015 issue / February 19, 2015
From Campus Bullies to Empty Churches
Mary Eberstadt
There is an under-explored relationship between the well-documented decline in Western churchgoing, especially among Millennials, and the simultaneous rise of a toxic public force on campuses across the Western world: the new intolerance.
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Intercollegiate Review - Spring 2015 issue / February 9, 2015
The Truth About Religion and Animals
Mary Eberstadt
To connect the dots between the preciousness of animal life and the preciousness of human life isn’t to engage in moral equivalence. It’s rather to observe that people have big enough hearts to cherish both.
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TIME Ideas / December 16, 2014
Support for Animal Welfare Grows on the Right
Mary Eberstadt
The momentum in conservative and traditionalist circles toward a consistent ethic of life is arising not by accident in an age of omnipresent abortion — but on account of it.
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National Review Online / December 5, 2014
The Indelible Lessons of Auschwitz
Mary Eberstadt
The persistence of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East underscores the importance of remembering the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Time / October 9, 2014
You Are More Important Than You Know
Mary Eberstadt
Today’s college graduates are entering into a world increasingly desperate for bold, empathetic ambassadors of the Judeo-Christian tradition of service.
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National Review Online / May 29, 2014
The Puritans Among Us
Mary Eberstadt
A new book shows that modern American social and political movements reflect a familiar yearning for personal redemption.
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National Review / April 21, 2014