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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‘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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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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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

Progressivism’s War on Winners

Mary Eberstadt

Today’s liberals advance the ideology of sexual expressionism to the detriment of the very people in whose name progressivism professes to speak.

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National Review / March 10, 2014

Why Ritalin Still Rules

Mary Eberstadt

The increasing use of psychotropic drugs to address children’s behavior suggests a disquieting truth about the demands of a post-sexual-revolution society.

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National Review Online / December 17, 2013