Bring Back the Coffee Date

by Anna Bonta Moreland

College students need to rehabilitate a social script that helps them get to know each other with the lights on, in real and not digital relationships. Continue Reading »

26 Dec 2020

The First Sexual Revolution

by Kyle Harper

Epictetus was the sort of figure that only the Roman Empire could have produced. He was born in the Phrygian hills of Anatolia in the middle of the first century. Enslaved and brought to the capital, he served in the household of the freedman Epaphroditos. Epaphroditos, in turn, was in the direct . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

The Death of Eros

by Mark Regnerus

Something strange is going on in America’s bedrooms. In a recent issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers reported that on average, Americans have sex about nine fewer times a year than they did in the late 1990s. The trend is most pronounced among the young. Controlling for age and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Redemption of the Erotic

by Charles J. Chaput

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur. It’s a lie. It’s a theft. It makes us small and ignoble.
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21 Feb 2017

Carl’s Rock Songbook #73: The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love”

by Carl Scott

Musically, not that impressive, an instance of the Beatles’ rock-meets-music-hall mode, but winsome enough if you don’t listen to it often. It’s fun, and it knows it’s sing-song-y. Irony-hounds might even ask whether that hints at some kind of reversal being the true message. But, no, the . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #72: The Beatles, “It’s Only Love”

by Carl Scott

Back to where our world begins, the 1960s. The English word “love” can refer to a number of different sorts of love that other languages, classical Greek particularly, kept more distinct in their vocabulary. The distinctions between agape, philos, and eros, for example, are fairly . . . . Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #70: Social Dancing as a Key to Whit Stillman’s Films

by Carl Scott

Whit Stillman fans know that his first three films are a loosely connected trilogy of sorts, with THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO being the film that ties them together by means of our meeting key characters from the other two in its Club. How then, does his recent DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, a rather stranger . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2012

Poisoned Eros

by Edward T. Oakes

Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink. He didn’t die, but became vice.” This is one of Nietzsche’s more famous obiter dicta, and Allan Bloom finds the occasion to cite it more than once in this, his last book, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1994