Queer Nation Is No Nation At All
by Carl R. TruemanIf the Pride flag cannot even hold together the community for which it claims to stand, how can it possibly offer a stable vision for a nation and its national culture? Continue Reading »
Transgenderism: Escaping Limits
by R. R. RenoThe progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new epoch in human history. Amid explosive growth during the industrial revolution, he thought we were on the cusp of material abundance. Marx argued that if we rejected the . . . . Continue Reading »
Parental Rights and Their Limits
by Scott YenorThe Parental Rights in Education Bill is a step in the right direction, but merely appealing to parental rights is not enough. Continue Reading »
Coercion and Conversion Therapy
by Ephraim RadnerA recent letter signed by leading English church leaders implies that encouraging people to live the sexual lives ordered by their biological sex is a form of oppression. This strikes me as completely misconceived. Continue Reading »
Rowan Williams and Our Sentimental Age
by Carl R. TruemanThe recent letter to Boris Johnson from a number of British religious leaders is an example of how sentimental mush has come to replace careful moral reasoning in the minds of so many. Continue Reading »
How the Person Became a Self
by Ryan T. AndersonIn Strange New World, Trueman uncovers and describes the underlying social and intellectual forces that explain why his grandfather would have rejected sexual reassignment without a second thought but President Biden can declare that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” Continue Reading »
Liturgy of the Powers
by Carl R. TruemanReal women should be afraid, very afraid: Their rights are being protected by those who do not even know what a woman is. Continue Reading »
Linguistic Violence
by Carl R. TruemanNominalism has won, and politics has thus become preoccupied with language. Continue Reading »
The Gender Resistance
by Mary HarringtonTwo books marshal cogent arguments against gender identity ideology. But is argument enough? Continue Reading »
Lament for the Nations
by Scott YenorMulticulturalism has become increasingly hostile to the traditional understanding of individual rights and Canada’s old self-understanding. Continue Reading »
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