The Truth About Sexual Transition

by Mark Bauerlein

Jennifer Lahl joins in to discuss her book The Detransition Diaries. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2024

Sinéad O’Connor’s Cross

by John Byron Kuhner

Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-­songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has been announced, but it is fair to note that at times she both predicted and welcomed her own demise. Her son Shane committed suicide in 2022. Not long after, she vowed, “I’ve decided . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2023

Prurient History

by Ulrich L. Lehner

Sex sells, all the more if one throws in Vatican secrets and conspiracy. Long before Frédéric Martel’s In the Closet of the Vatican, the Church had problems with sexual indiscretions, not least in the era of Pope Pius IX (1846–1878). Hubert Wolf, the self-appointed dean of German church . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020