My latest controversial take on declining fertility, the point of suffering, and the dangers of bringing genetic testing into family formation The Dispatch

And don't miss this week's roundup, featuring Sean Fischer on the QUITTR - Quit Porn Now, Beatrice Scudeler at The Dispatch, Kaeley Triller on Lauren Southern, plus Brad Wilcox, Elissa Strauss, Kathleen Stock, Mary Harrington, Haley Baumeister, and Meagan Kohler. fairerdisputations.org/the-week-81202…

Obstetrics isn’t seen by some as ‘serious’ medicine. The bias against maternity care is rooted in sexism, writes Dr Emma Jones 👇 buff.ly/cL3oujC

This week in Public Discourse, I share the career advice I wish I'd been given in my early twenties. Vocations should inform our career choices, not the other way around. Read it below 👇🏼

Knee deep in Hansard. Send help.

This week, Public Discourse is publishing an article series on advice to people in their early twenties. I kicked off the series yesterday with an essay on career and vocation. Today, the series continues with a reflection on friendship.

It's been an excellent week here at Public Discourse with our Advice for the 20s series. Rev. Peter Ryan closed out the series with his insightful discussion of vocation as a tradeoff between multiple different goods. He writes: "[C]ooperating with God’s plan comes at a cost.

Baked enough cheesecakes for a formal dinner for 20 people the other day. A nice distraction from my usual job of ranting about how horribke everything is in the world. Seriously considering catering as a side hustle...

What's the point of getting a literature degree if you can't criticize bad storytelling? Today for The Critic, I review the new Netflix film My Oxford Year, arguing that its obsession with clichés is a symptom of the microtrendification of fiction.

“You’d be forgiven for wondering whether Netflix ran its algorithm magic and asked AI to write a script with all the trends” — Beatrice Scudeler is unimpressed by “My Oxford Year” thecritic.co.uk/a-series-of-dr…

Technology is changing the way we approach art. Read more of my thoughts for The Critic below 👇🏼

Let's be clear: no parent can ever entirely shield their child from pain. Selling people the dream that they can do so - even shaming parents who don't fall for it, as Orchid does - is repugnant.

Very pleased to have visited Bookcase Carlisle in Carlisle yesterday.

'My commonplace book is a healthy mix of St. John Henry Newman and Michael Scott'. Entirely agree with Tsh Oxenreider except for me it's probably a mix of Dorothy Sayers and Leslie Knope 🤣