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I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating to revisit this moral, cultural...

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...

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...

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...

The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everythingby matthew ballliveright, 352 pages, $30 My childhood religious education was, you might say, haphazard. I met many of the most famous...

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...

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...

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...

Mom Genes:Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct By Abigail TuckernGallery Books, 336 pages, $28 On my study bookshelf stands a stretch of pastel-colored books: my library of...

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,...