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The Dignity of Dependence: How the Vulnerabilities We Share Become the Ties that Bind

The loving entanglement that defies our culture’s idol of autonomy is available to men just as much as it is to women, though differently.

Shallow and Hollow: Media’s Romance Problem

Deep down, humans not only want but also require enduring, stable relationships.
September 30, 2025

An Extraordinary School for Girls: Learning the Things You Wish Grandma Taught You

It is daunting to envision running a pleasant, blessed household. This is why we're not meant to do it alone. Women are meant to flock together, with their words and…

Dobbs v. Roe: See How They Love One Another

There will be a temptation for many to say: “Good. Roe is gone. Now the rest is none of my business.” It would be wise to remember this disinterest in…
July 29, 2022

Consent to be Used or Vow to Love: a Review of Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex

What Emba most successfully conveys throughout the entirety of her brief book is an awareness that we are never “our own.” This is certainly right, but she does not go…

Liberated for What

This piece is adapted slightly from a speech given at Spring Arbor University in Michigan at September's FPR Conference. The sexual revolution as we understand it today was not originally…
Katherine Dalton
October 11, 2018

Have We Forgotten the Women?

Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.
July 30, 2010

Evidence Gone Missing

Who is following in Susan B. Anthony's footsteps: Connie Schultz or Sarah Palin? Is abortion an empowering right necessary for true equality, or an inhumane tragedy linked to lack of…
June 1, 2010

Sharing the Kids Equally

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS So, Melissa has flown the coop, escaping to Washington D.C. for the next four days to hang out with friends old and new,…
October 15, 2009