No Place Like Home
My name Abigail means in Hebrew “father’s joy.” Which tells us that, at birth, I’d already received my assignment. Since my father was considered, by a number…
Tales of My Mother
Only in Victorian novels do we find good women who are also universally beloved. Here, from the annals of literary memoir, is the view of my mother…
Röpke’s Conundrums Over the Natural Family
Wilhelm Röpke was an unusual free-market economist working in a difficult time. I believe that we should see him, first of all, as a product of 1914,…
The Crisis of the American Family: A Polemic on Liberal Rationalism
Consider the American family, never so vexed. Take marriage in particular. Writing in The Christian Science Monitor, Stephanie Hanes reports: "In 1950, married couples represented 78 percent…
French Eyes on HBO’s Succession
"The father saw from afar the limits at which his authority had to expire; and when time has brought him to those limits, he abdicates without difficulty."…