Sexual Revolution

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Teresa of Ávila: The Progress of a Soul

Charlotte Allen

Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul by cathleen medwick penguin random house, 304 pages, $12.36…

Sex and the Married Missileer

Daniel P. Moloney

At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…

Proposing Courtship

Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass

Anyone interested in improving relations between men and women today and tomorrow must proceed by taking a…

Talking Straight

J. Budziszewski

Homosexuality and American Public Life.Edited by Christopher Wolfe.Introduction by William Kristol.Spence. 320 pp. $29.95 Among activists who…

The First Modern Woman

Ann White

Contrary to popular opinion, current American sexual practice began not in the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s…

The Sexual Counterrevolution

Sarah E. Hinlicky

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by wendy shalit free press, 304 pages, $13.91 Despite…

Daddy’s Little Girl

Wendy D. Shalit

What went wrong with Alice Walker’s new book, her first novel in six years? By the Light…

The San Francisco Solution

William J. Levada

In a pair of side-by-side op-ed pieces last April, the San Francisco Chronicle presented a double critique…

Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes …

David Orgon Coolidge

“Whatever your view of same-sex marriage,” declared Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic, “in all likelihood, within…

Homosexuality and the Truth

Elizabeth Moberly

Strangers and Friends By Michael Vasey. Hodder & Stoughton (London), 276 pages. Homosexuality and the Politics of…

The Uses of Clerical Scandal

Philip Jenkins

When the Pope visited the United States last fall, the media indulged in a predictably frenzied examination…

Lost in the Movies

James Nuechterlein

Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…

The Capital of Ambivalence

Edward T. Oakes

Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…

On Bringing One’s Life to a Point

Gilbert Meilaender

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…

Gay Marriage: Reimaging Church History

Robin Darling Young

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex…