The Interim https://theinterim.com/ Canada's Pro-life, Pro-Family Newspaper Online Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:06:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling https://theinterim.com/reviews/losing-big-americas-reckless-bet-on-sports-gambling/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:06:55 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51189 Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, Jonathan D. Cohen (Columbia Global Reports, $27.95, 185 pages) Jonathan D. Cohen, senior program officer for American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, writes, “There have always been Americans driven to ruin by gambling. But never have so many [...]

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]]> Why we suffer https://theinterim.com/reviews/why-we-suffer/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:59:31 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51184 Review: Making Sense of Suffering, by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press, $17.95 USD, 215 pages) Ignatius Press has re-released Peter Kreeft’s 1986 book Making Sense of Suffering and although the causes of our suffering might have changed, mankind’s reaction to suffering has not. It was, and remains, one of the main arguments against God: how could an [...]

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]]> Feminist group violating Malta’s pro-life law https://theinterim.com/issues/abortion/feminist-group-violating-maltas-pro-life-law/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:00 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51138 Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A foreign pro-abortion activist group is interfering in a pro-life country by distributing illegal abortifacient pills to women. On April 15, Women on Waves, a pro-abortion activist group from the Netherlands, announced that it would be helping women in Malta and nearby Gozo to illegally access abortion pills through the use of [...]

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]]> Supreme Court allows mail delivery of abortion pill https://theinterim.com/issues/abortion/supreme-court-allows-mail-delivery-of-abortion-pill/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:52:27 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51134 Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent:  On May 14, the Supreme Court of the United States permitted the on-going mail distribution of the abortion pill when it stayed a lower court decision that sided with the state of Louisiana in its challenge against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2023 rule that allowed mifepristone to be prescribed and [...]

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]]> U.S. environment czar denies knowing abortion pill harms https://theinterim.com/issues/abortion/u-s-environment-czar-denies-knowing-abortion-pill-harms/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:42:17 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51131 Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 13, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin told a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that he did not know anything about abortion-related contaminants in the country’s water supply even though he has been personally briefed on the issue by Liberty Council Action. Zeldin was asked by Senator Patty [...]

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]]> Selected Letters of John Updike https://theinterim.com/reviews/selected-letters-of-john-updike/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:32:16 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51126 Selected Letters of John Updike: Edited by James Schiff (Penguin Random House, $73, 912 pages) John Updike is perhaps the preeminent example of what is called a man of letters – the author of short stories, novels, critical essays. A number of his letters are collected in a large volume, Selected Letters of John Updike. [...]

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]]> Modern Monsters: Political Ideologies and Their War against the Catholic Church https://theinterim.com/reviews/modern-monsters-political-ideologies-and-their-war-against-the-catholic-church/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:24:27 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51122 Modern Monsters: Political Ideologues and Their War against the Catholic Church: George Marlin (St. Augustine’s Press, $45.50, 227 pages) Version 1.0.0 George Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need-USA, has written an accessible examination of a dozen or so intellectuals whose ideas have, in his estimation, greatly harmed society by attacking [...]

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]]> Pornocracy https://theinterim.com/reviews/pornocracy/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:09:05 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51118 Pornocracy: Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel (Polity, $36, 183 pages) In their introduction, Jo Bartosch, a journalist, and Robert Jessel, a human rights campaigner, argue that pornography defines our culture, calling our society a “pornocracy” which they define as, “A society in which political power, culture, relationships and identity are shaped or dominated by the [...]

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]]> UK government wants to expedite abortion services https://theinterim.com/issues/abortion/uk-government-wants-to-expedite-abortion-services/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:55:37 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51111 Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom is planning to expand abortion access by incentivizing abortion providers to offer “lunch hour” or “same day” abortions. In April, the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care published the “Renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England.” This strategy includes plans to increase abortion access in England by removing [...]

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]]> 29th Annual March for Life https://theinterim.com/issues/abortion/29th-annual-march-for-life/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:22:57 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51069 Paul Tuns: On May 14, thousands of Canadians took part in the largest annual demonstration on Parliament Hill, the National March for Life, organized by Campaign Life Coalition. Before participants marched through the streets of [...]

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]]> Parents have no rights https://theinterim.com/politics/parents-have-no-rights/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:56:37 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51065 Paul Tuns: Nova Scotia Education Minister Brendan Maguire said that parents do not have “rights over a child.” Maguire, a Liberal who crossed the floor to join the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative government of Premier Tim Houston in 2024, was answering a question about Bill 201 in the provincial House of Assembly. Bill 201 proposes [...]

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]]> Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist https://theinterim.com/reviews/arthur-schopenhauer-the-life-and-thought-of-philosophys-greatest-pessimist/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:50:50 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51061 Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist David Bather Woods (Chicago, $39, 294 pages) Arthur Schopenhauer has been described as a miserable philosopher who saw human life swing between pain and boredom, suffering that is relieved only partially through aesthetic contemplation and the renunciation of desire: “the world and life can afford [...]

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]]> The war against dependence: women v. women’s bodies https://theinterim.com/reviews/the-war-against-dependence-women-v-womens-bodies/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:40:15 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51057 Sarah Stilton, Review: The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco Sargeant (Notre Dame University Press, $37.95, 219 pages) Leah Libresco Sargeant, an author and speaker, provocatively argues in her brief The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist that it is not women who form families by choosing marriage and motherhood that betray the sisterhood, but [...]

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]]> National protest against Bill C-9 https://theinterim.com/politics/national-protest-against-bill-c-9/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:56:38 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51051 Paul Tuns: On May 1, Campaign Life Coalition organized demonstrations at 49 locations in nine provinces outside the constituency offices of Liberal MPs to encourage the elected representatives to put pressure on senators to defeat or amend Bill C-9. Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, is a government bill [...]

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]]> Digital Currency or Digital Control https://theinterim.com/reviews/digital-currency-or-digital-control/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:52:37 +0000 https://theinterim.com/?p=51047 Digital Currency or Digital Control: Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money Nicholas Anthony (Cato Institute, $21.95, 160 pages) Version 1.0.0 Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are being researched and developed by central banks and policymakers, and author Nicholas Anthony warns it is nothing less than “an attempt to reinvent money as we [...]

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