1. We ran this interview with Meghan Cox Gurdon about her book on reading aloud over the weekend. She’ll be at the Catholic Information Center tonight in D.C. and you can tune in online if you can’t be there in person.

2. Twin explosions kill 20 people at Philippines cathedral

3. Robert Nicholson on the Holocaust

4. Ericka Anderson: Pro-Life in Practice: 20 Active Ways to Help

5. WSJ: The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone

6. Hearing babies’ heartbeats at the Walk for Life in San Francisco this weekend

7. New York, Abortion, and a Short Route to Chaos

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9. Naomi Schaefer Riley: Drug-addicted mothers and child well-being

10. A Bridge Between Adoptive and Birth Families

11. ‘Gosnell’ star Dean Cain: New abortion protection ‘would make the crimes of Kermit Gosnell legal’

12. The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left

13. Edith Wharton and Loneliness in January

14. A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences

15. Ronald Reagan appears on What’s My Line?

Plus:

My syndicated column on the March for Life and things

An interview with Lisa Wheeler on adoption and foster care

Part of my conversation on life and death with Fr. James Schall, S.J.

(There’s also a first installment here.)

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