Living with Integrity

Living with Integrity

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Columns, Culture, Gender, Legislation

Recently, two young men identifying as women stood atop Connecticut’s high school podiums after their track victories, putting their competitors in an awkward situation. To grumble against the unfair physiological advantages of those who defeated them seems like...
“Gender fluid” royal child?

“Gender fluid” royal child?

by | Mar 1, 2019 | Culture, Gender

Encountered a rather shocking headline from recent days, in which the Duchess of Sussex (née Meghan Markle) explained that the child (due late April/early May) would be raised with a “fluid approach to gender.” Heavens, how will the Queen manage this? was...
Mr Rochester’s First Wife

Mr Rochester’s First Wife

by | Jan 28, 2019 | Books, Culture

There is so much to love about the writing of Charlotte Brontë, and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) is of course, marvelous. How true her words near the outset: Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the...