Does the Church of England Need Evangelicals?
by Carl R. TruemanThe issue of our day is anthropology. What does it mean to be human, if it means anything at all? Continue Reading »
Mary Eberstadt on the Sorrows of the Sexual Revolution
by Mark BauerleinMary Eberstadt joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited. Continue Reading »
Drag Queens
by Darel E. PaulThe queering of mainstream American culture has no more dramatic exemplar than the drag queen. RuPaul’s Drag Race, which began in 2009 as a competition reality show on the little-watched LGBT-oriented channel Logo, is today a global media and entertainment empire of four spin-off and . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Tate, Symptom of the Sexual Revolution
by Jonathon Van MarenAndrew Tate’s popularity is a reminder that in a society frequently hostile to traditional masculinity, lucrative opportunities arise for hucksters to amass influence by selling the genuinely toxic kind. Continue Reading »
Leonard Cohen's Lost Children
by Jonathon Van MarenLeonard Cohen lived long enough to see the freedom of the sixties turn into something else—something that, despite his enthusiastic personal participation, was poisonous, especially for the vulnerable. Continue Reading »
What Sex Really Is
by Audrey PollnowIn her delightful essay “Harry Potter and the Reverse Voltaire,” the philosopher Mary Leng tries to understand why a colleague of hers has denounced J. K. Rowling. Although the colleague believes that “there are contexts in which [biological] sex matters politically,” she has condemned . . . . Continue Reading »
When Evil Is Called Good
by Carl R. TruemanThere is a clear push to grant LGBTQ+ ideology a favored legal and cultural status that enforces it without compromise, with any dissent labelled as morally evil. Continue Reading »
A Society Ashamed of Shame
by Carl R. TruemanThe loss of modesty seems to have fueled nothing but the further sexualization and objectification of the female body. Continue Reading »
Imperial Selves and Deteriorating Persons
by M. D. AeschlimanBoth arrant trumpery and much of our current “Great Awakening” are lethal to Western civilization, of which we are the beneficiaries and should be the guardians. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousNobody could accuse Scott Yenor of pulling his punches in “Sexual Counter-Revolution” (November 2021). His particular brand of reactionary conservatism is shared by many on the right in our moment. The general view of these conservatives is that the sexual revolution of the past fifty years is . . . . Continue Reading »
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