Maggie gallagher

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate...
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.