Misunderstanding the Fertility Crisis The DINKs video isn’t shaping culture—it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies. Alex Nowrasteh 14 Dec 2023 · 10 min read
Care Feminism vs Career Feminism: Quillette Cetera Episode 20 In a culture obsessed with girlbosses, this young mother wants us to see the value of women's work in the home. Zoe Booth 5 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. Steve Salerno 8 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Father Absence Has Already Peaked A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.' Nicholas Wolfinger 23 Apr 2023 · 5 min read
Next Year in Provence After my parents’ divorce, my mother complained a lot about small-town life in Cobourg, Ontario. For many locals, I learned, the feeling was mutual. Leah McLaren 25 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
The Unexpected Future We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation Joel Kotkin / Wendell Cox 20 Aug 2022 · 15 min read
Learning to Forgive the Father I Never Met—and the Mother He Seduced My mother could always sense the difference, the alienation, between me and my father. It’s not that we didn’t get along. It’s just that there was almost nothing there—nothing in common. He was American football, girls, tailgating, hunting, the Air Force, that one story about being Nick Comilla 28 Feb 2022 · 18 min read
When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices. Angus Fox 18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read
What Are Dads Good For? The sadly deflating truth of the matter is that it can take a good few years before children begin to apprehend what fathers are good for. Herman Goodden 18 Jun 2021 · 8 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties. Angus Fox 21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process. Angus Fox 12 Apr 2021 · 18 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality. Angus Fox 6 Apr 2021 · 32 min read
When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria. Angus Fox 2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
‘Taking Cara’ Business: A New Mom’s Anxious Glimpse Into the World of Baby-Sleep Consultants Being a new mom who wanted the best for my child, I felt anxious about having fallen into what I was told was suboptimal behaviour. Tara Nykyforiak 3 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
The Problem with Kinship Care It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly Naomi Schaefer Riley 12 Dec 2020 · 9 min read