Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In consultation with others of like mind, they drafted a statement of principles. It’s available on their website, freedomconservatism.org. One can debate the principles and their formulations. . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishop Peter J. Elliott joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Sexual Revolution: History, Ideology, Power. Continue Reading »
Internet pornography is nothing like the naughty magazines of our grandfathers. The problem with pornography consumption today is not that it is a sexual vice, but that it is an addiction. Continue Reading »
The Hebrew Bible and Talmud do not agree with Jesus in equating lust with adultery, but they indicate that the gap between these two sins is quite small. Continue Reading »
If you see pornography as morally neutral and consider its moral value to be found in the way it is used rather than in the acts it involves, you are complicit in the desecration of the human form and in the erasure of what it means to be human. Continue Reading »
Andrew 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 »
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 »
Late at night, after the dishes have all been cleared and the kids put to bed, most of my friends cast a quick, furtive look around to make sure no one’s watching, grab their phones, slide into bed, and indulge their wildest and most sensuous desires. No, they’re not looking at pornography. . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Whitehouse was not simply a moralizing paranoiac, and at some point a half-century ago, we chose the pornographic world that she spent her life fighting against. Continue Reading »
We shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. While we wait for Republicans in Congress to finally gin up the courage to fix the problem, there’s a lot that Elon Musk can do in the meantime to help. Continue Reading »
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