Did Mary Have Agency?

by Kirsten Sanders

In her new book Women and the Gender of God, Amy Peeler adds contemporary questions of power and consent to the shopworn themes of feminist theology.   Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2023

Anatomy of a Cancellation

by Scott Yenor

It all began at the National Conservatism conference in Orlando on Halloween 2021. I spoke on family decline and what to do about it. For generations, conservatives have tried to promote the interests of families while respecting the goals of feminists and sexual liberationists. “Compassionate . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Letters

by Various

Bill Gates and Work Sam Kriss’s takedown of Bill Gates, and of money generally, is a provocative and thoughtful piece (“The Truth About Bill Gates,” November 2022), but more than once while reading it I felt sorry for Kriss. His understanding of work has a depressing every-man-for-himself . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

The Progressive Scarlett O'Hara

by Matthew Schmitz

In the summer of 2020, HBO removed Gone with the Wind (1939) from its streaming service. The move came in response to an op-ed by John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave (2013), which charged that the film “glorifies the antebellum south,” “romanticizes the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

The New Women's Movement

by Jonathon Van Maren

Powerful female activists are fighting against the transgender movement’s massive push to provide sex changes to gender-confused girls; against attacks on the natural family; and against the vile abuse and degradation of digital pornography. Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2022

The Wrongs of Woman

by Matthew Schmitz

In 1891, Charlotte ­Perkins Gilman announced the extinction of the Angel in the House. Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” was one of many feminist writers who had struggled to eradicate this image of meekness and domesticity, which defined what it meant to be a respectable woman in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2022

Hungry Babies

by Samira Kawash

Breastfeeding, along with its nutritional benefits, wages war against the instrumentalization of female reproductivity. Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2022

The Rise of Femcel Noir

by Geoff Shullenberger

Myth, legend, and the Bible all warn of the dangers of looking where we ought not. Those who turn their gaze in the wrong direction are cursed, blinded, turned to stone or salt, transformed into deer, and hunted down by their own hounds. Freud, the great modern mythologist, redirected retribution . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2022

Lessons from Jane Austen

by Tiffany Schubert

The artificial “lady” is the problem; “rational creature” is the solution. Rational creatures are capable of exercising and growing in virtue, in cultivating habits that make heroism possible.  Continue Reading »

8 Aug 2022

What a Tangled Web

by Carl R. Trueman

The West no longer has any consensus on what it means to be a woman or even a person. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2022