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For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son

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

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

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

The Unexpected Future

We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation

Joel Kotkin / Wendell Cox

20 Aug 2022 · 14 min read

Learning to Forgive the Father I Never Met—and the Mother He Seduced

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 · 17 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 15 min read

What Are Dads Good For?

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 · 7 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Angus Fox

21 Apr 2021 · 16 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Angus Fox

12 Apr 2021 · 16 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Angus Fox

6 Apr 2021 · 30 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

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

‘Taking Cara’ Business: A New Mom’s Anxious Glimpse Into the World of Baby-Sleep Consultants

Tara Nykyforiak

3 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

The Problem with Kinship Care

The Problem with Kinship Care

Naomi Schaefer Riley

12 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

The End of the World as We Know It?

The End of the World as We Know It?

Glenn T. Stanton

11 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 11 min read