Sitemap - 2024 - Bonnie Kristian

Why Christmas isn't for kids

‘But seeing the Lord, are you not subdued?’

Three small ideas for screen-free church

How to throw a cocktail party

Don't mosey on over to Bluesky

Maybe you don't actually like democracy as much as you thought?

You gotta cut the boomer would-be grandparents some slack

Anxiety, democracy, division, reconciliation, repair

A useless seat at a rotten table

The ill-boding popularity of Halloween

Tariffs are taxes you pay, and both Trump and Harris want you to pay up

The never-Trump maybe-Vance voter

The U.S. should not go to war with Iran

Don’t count on a Republican reckoning

The wrong agreement on the fertility crisis

Enchantment can’t be a feeling

Rich people should build beautiful public spaces

That mid-20s impulse to have a quiet evening at home is what we used to call being ready to settle down

A (very partial) defense of the online anti-kid misanthropes

A few good reads in my absence

Tim Walz, ‘weird,’ and the undemocratic notion of a ‘legitimate public’

The class divide on smartphones in schools

Are women human?

Did God protect Donald Trump?

A week off for housekeeping

Age is not ‘just a number’ (and other thoughts on Joe Biden’s debate showing)

What I wish more people understood about American evangelicals

Should we be talking ‘civil religion’ rather than ‘Christian nationalism’?

I think I’m getting tired of the internet

On what we do to our faces

The problem with pop pronatalism

That commencement speech didn't need to be on the internet

We’re all secularists about having kids

My most universal case for having kids

RFK Jr. isn't a spoiler for Joe Biden

Let TikTok die a natural death

Childcare is expensive because caring for children is expensive

A few theories on that Dutch euthanasia story

You can win the information war in your mind. The government can’t win it on the internet.

Why we’re choosing classical education

American parents want a phone-based childhood

On the impulse to Jesus juke

Do not write me an essay about your restaurant’s compensation decisions

There has to be a better way to sell books

Avenging Navalny is not our government’s job

The single most cynicism-inducing fact of politics in my lifetime?

The risk of rule by luxury belief

How do we keep journalism’s lights on, and what happens if they go out?

Belated thoughts on 'Barbie,' occasioned by Oscar nods

The risks and wrongheadedness of U.S. strikes on Yemen

The 'replace not repair' style of American life

Useful, cumulative, and brief: A manifesto for kids’ activities