Nathanael Blake

Those pushing a top-down cultural revolution do not want a label, because that makes it harder to delegitimize opposition to their agenda.

The sexual revolution’s redefinition of family was never going to stop with same-sex marriage, but few on the left have had the courage to say no to the expansion of the alphabet agenda.

Abortion and transgender ideology are indeed connected, for they are two fronts in our culture’s war of liberation against our bodies.

The official moral relativism of absolute academic freedom makes universities self-negating institutions. No wonder many student activists are eager to fashion and enforce new norms and taboos: they realize, however inchoately, that a community of inquiry and instruction must also be one of practice, and that the liberal university fails to integrate these elements.

The local gentry has its flaws, but the rest of us have many reasons to prefer it to the ruling national elite.

After decades of tearing down manners and norms, self-proclaimed social progressives are now frantically trying to reconstitute some sense of public decency.

Just as we must continue the political and legal fight to protect innocent human life after Roe is gone, pro-lifers must continue to show that there is a better option than abortion’s culture of death.

Texas’s law will still be challenged in court, but abortion facilities in Texas may be closed or restricted during the legal battle.

Roe v. Wade is the leading example of the Supreme Court acting as an unelected super-legislature and imposing its will on the nation, and upholding Roe will only further delegitimize the court.

Conservatism is about preserving the true sources of human flourishing in this life — family, faith, and community — rather than tearing them down in the name of liberal ideology.

Adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security.

Replacing babies with pets stifles a person’s capacity to give and receive love, as it wrongly directs our greatest earthly affections toward ourselves.