Our Integral Regime

by Sohrab Ahmari

The Center for Global Development elected not to renew Maya Forstater’s contract after she expressed the belief that sex is biological and immutable. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2019

“Fairness For All” Is Unfair

by Emily Zinos

Congressman Chris Stewart's “Fairness For All Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and “gender identity.”
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12 Dec 2019

Bourgeois Vice

by Matthew Schmitz

While driving from Illinois to Iowa, ­Donald McCloskey had an epiphany. He had spent the previous night dancing at lesbian bars in Aurora and now was returning to his home in Iowa City, where he was known as a libertarian economist and conservative “by academic standards.” Once again he would . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

Child Abuse By Another Name

by Emily Zinos

Seven-year-old James Younger has become the latest victim in the war of transgender identity politics.  Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2019

An Acceptable Prejudice

by Elizabeth C. Corey

Contemporary universities are doing their best to eradicate prejudice and bias. Yet one remaining prejudice—against white men—is not only tolerated but encouraged. While we are told that diversity of skin color and gender is an unmitigated good, people in faculty meetings and job . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Sex Is Better than Gender

by Emily Zinos

We would do well to scrap “gender identity” altogether. Continue Reading »

30 May 2019

The New Family Violence

by Douglas Farrow

A Canadian court is persecuting a father for “misgendering” his daughter. Continue Reading »

8 May 2019

A Sure Sign of Old Age

by Carl R. Trueman

Transgender ideology depends upon a distinction between the genders, even while denying the only grounds for maintaining that distinction. Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2017

The Right to Be Yourself?

by Douglas Farrow

If authentic naming or identifying is a strictly private, self-governed enterprise, what is there that is truly public? If my public persona is entirely under my control, and if I can die to my old self and rise to my new self any time I choose and in whatever manner I choose, and if indeed I am not to be burdened by my old “dead” name, as the Dean of Law says, in what sense is my persona public? Continue Reading »

9 Mar 2017

Against Gender

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 10. Also featuring: Catholic immigration theology and defunding Howard Zinn. Continue Reading »

16 Sep 2016