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Wilfred M. McClay on grasping human things in human terms.

With ‘Birthing People,’ We Approach a ‘Brave New World’ I am writing on May 9, Mother’s Day in the United States. I used to look askance at the holiday, not because I have anything against mothers—on the contrary—but because it always seemed like a Hallmark Holiday, something manufactured by corporate interests and glazed in a sugar of sentimentality from which one could free oneself only by a tithe of flowers or luncheon for the mothers in one’s life. Lately, however, I have become a staunch partisan of the holiday. This isn’t because I doubt the cynicism of the interests e...