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1 week ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Books
A New Book for an Old Problem
Louise Perry correctly identifies what is wrong with our sexual economy, but does not take the next, obvious step.
Featured in the May/June 2025 issue
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry. Polity, 176 pages. The birth of my daughter radicalized me.
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1 month ago | 
brownpelicanla.com | Carmel Richardson
Fatherhood and St. Joseph, by Stephen P. WhiteMay 1, 2025 By Carmel Richardson, First Things, April 28, 2025Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory shocked many. The deplorables won the day, the elites were disgraced, and history was shown to have at least one more chapter. As Matthew Yglesias put it, “the vibes, they are a-shiftin’.” The vibe shift was especially evident among young voters, who swung hard to the right in 2024.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Carmel Richardson
Daily Scripture Reading and Meditations: The Kingdom of God Has Come near to You By Carmel Richardson, First Things, Oct. 3, 2024Carmel Richardson is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Carmel Richardson
A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump. Balancing his own more pro-life position with a determination to present Trump’s abortion rhetoric as both moderate and pro-family, Vance may have successfully threaded a needle that Republican politicians, including his running mate, had previously failed to do.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Amber Nicole Thurman died of septic shock with “retained products of conception” in late summer 2022. Just a few weeks before, the overturn of Roe v. Wade triggered Georgia’s state law banning abortions from the sixth week of pregnancy.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
What Are Children For? by Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg, St. Martin’s Press, 336 pages, June 2024Rachel Wiseman’s mother always knew she wanted to have children. Wiseman, meanwhile, only arrived at the same conclusion after a winding personal odyssey, one that involved soul-searching “Motherhood: Is It For Me?” classes, reading a lot of “motherhood ambivalence” autofiction and feminist literature, and finally, watching her friend, Anastasia Berg, go through it.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Religion
GOP Can Learn Abortion Lesson from Methodist Infighting
Republicans must remain the pro-life party.
Before my United Methodist Church began its final descent into theological madness, disparate elements were trying to drag it left or right on various issues through the denomination’s messy democratic process. Nowhere was this more apparent than on abortion. The church was an early adopter of the “prayerfully pro-choice” position before Roe v.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Carmel Richardson
Last month, the conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck posted a video on X, formerly known as Twitter, denouncing Tractor Supply Co. The Tennessee-based firm, which markets its farm supplies with rugged Americana iconography, requires its employees to undergo mandatory “LGBTQIA+ training,” while sponsoring sex-reassignment surgery and hormone-replacement therapy through its health plan.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Abortion
Why the Abortion Pill Ruling Is About the Administrative State
The Supreme Court delivers a blow to pro-lifers– as well as to opponents of the administrative state.
The U.S. Supreme Court surprised no one Thursday morning when it ruled unanimously that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al. did not have legal standing to challenge the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the abortion pill.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis |Carmel Richardson
Religion
Jesuit Plots
The Society of Jesus has been responsible for many revolutions both political and spiritual.
The Jesuits: A History, by Markus Friedrich, translated by John Noël Dillon, Princeton University Press, 872 pagesIn Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, a Canadian bounder named Rex Mottram converts to Catholicism in order to marry the novel’s leading lady, Julia Flyte.
