Prioritizing Family Is Now a Hate Crime Sitting in a hospital cafeteria, surrounded by families enduring the long grind of caregiving, I mused, “If only someone could tell us who we’re allowed to love first.” Turns out, prioritizing family is now a…
The last light in the nativity scene has been turned on. The room is dimly lit. Blue and yellow sparkles glitter in the building’s windows. There’s just the reflection of a silver foil river, which runs through the fields, and…
I was born in Spain which means I love to eat and drink. And I write for an American audience every day. In other words, I am professionally and ethically compelled to join in your traditions. So every year in…
WASHINGTON — “My Mom Voted for Trump. Can We Let It Go?” read the headline for the New York Times’ The Ethicist piece on Friday. The family dynamic no doubt is familiar to New York Times readers — the writer’s wife’s…
By now, I feel like I’ve become something of a wedding expert. In addition to planning my own upcoming nuptials, I’ve attended four weddings just this summer, with a fifth around the corner. Not to mention, I served my time…
A writing seminar course titled “Abolish the Family” is being offered for students at the University of Pennsylvania this semester. In its course description, the seminar portrays families as “sites of pain, trauma, and uneven distributions of labor.” In this episode of The…
China announced last week that it will end all international adoptions, thus bringing to a close what was once the largest inter-country adoption program in history. Many of those adoptions were the result of the Chinese government’s attempt to manipulate…
Wholly unable to defend their actual record on pressing issues such as stagnating wages, soaring inflation, violent crime, and mass illegal immigration, the Biden-Harris regime and its fourth-estate stenographers have deflected by ginning up an astroturfed hysteria over a random…
In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Vice-Presidential nominee J. D. Vance referred to his grandmother as his “guardian angel by my side.” Acknowledging the important role that his grandmother played in rescuing him from a chaotic household…
