From Saad to Glad
by Mark BauerleinGad Saad joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Living the Good Life. Continue Reading »
Gad Saad joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Living the Good Life. Continue Reading »
The most important book you can read right now is a little (and little-known) Russian novel titled We. First published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton, it soon landed its author, Yevgeny Zamyatin, in trouble. An early and enthusiastic Bolshevik—he was arrested in 1905 for his . . . . Continue Reading »
David J. Ayers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, After the Revolution: Sex and the Single Evangelical. Continue Reading »
June 23 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. A product of the Civil Rights era and the women’s liberation movement, Title IX bans discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions that receive federal funding. But however benign the . . . . Continue Reading »
In her delightful essay “Harry Potter and the Reverse Voltaire,” the philosopher Mary Leng tries to understand why a colleague of hers has denounced J. K. Rowling. Although the colleague believes that “there are contexts in which [biological] sex matters politically,” she has condemned . . . . Continue Reading »
New York police officer Wilbert Mora was buried February 2. He was gunned down in a Harlem apartment January 21 after responding to a 911 call; his partner Jason Rivera died at the scene, and Mora succumbed to his wounds a few days later. The funeral was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Scott Yenor joins the podcast to talk about the ends and limits of the sexual liberation movement. Continue Reading »
Sex without love—real love, the kind that comes with obligations and unexpected burdens, but also unexpected joys—kills the taste for both. Continue Reading »
Sex and Secularism by joan wallach scott princeton, 240 pages, $27.95 While traveling in Spain about twenty years ago, I attended the nearest Ash Wednesday Mass I could find. Upon returning from the communion line, I realized that, aside from the priest, I was the only male present. Catholicism, it . . . . Continue Reading »