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Metaphysics of Care
Shortly after I had a baby, I realized that what I had long understood by “feminism” had little to say about my new reality. Mothering appears in liberal feminism, if it appears...
The King and the Swarm
The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of consciousness itself. After those changes came a period of chaotic upheaval, out...
Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating to revisit this moral, cultural...
Ungentle Parenting
What are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanst martin’s, 336 pages, $27 What are children for? For my grandmother, this wouldhave seemed a strange...
Normophobia
From the standpoint of social development, the family cannot be considered the basis of the authoritarian state, only as one of the most important institutions which support it. It...
Reactionary Hope
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalizationby eviane leidigcolumbia university, 288 pages, $110 Within mainstream modern liberal feminism—especially as filtered through America’s bitterly polarized culture...
Surviving the Metaverse
The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything by matthew ball liveright, 352 pages, $30 My childhood religious education was, you might say, haphazard. I met many of the...
Gender After Eden
The Genesis of Gender:A Christian Theoryby abigail favaleignatius, 248 pages, $17.95 Our departure from the Enlightenment is apparent everywhere today. “Truth” is contested territory at all points on the...
Return of the Cyborgs
Full Surrogacy Now:Feminism Against Familyby sophie lewisverso, 224 pages, $26.95 In our dyspeptic online discourse, it’s relatively easy to write something that you know will tickle the outrage glands...
The Gender Resistance
Material Girls:Why Reality Matters for Feminismby kathleen stockfleet, 320 pages, $26.99 Trans:When Ideology Meets Realityby helen joyceoneworld, 320 pages, $25.95 On the identitarian left, refusing to pay lip service...
Atomized Moms
Mom Genes:Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by abigail tuckergallery books, 336 pages, $28 On my study bookshelf stands a stretch of pastel-colored books: my library of...
Reactionary Feminism
When I was about ten, I began to notice that my father would leave the table after dinner, assuming my mother would clear the dishes. As we grew older,...
