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 »
There is a clear push to grant LGBTQ+ ideology a favored legal and cultural status that enforces it without compromise, with any dissent labelled as morally evil. Continue Reading »
The loss of modesty seems to have fueled nothing but the further sexualization and objectification of the female body. Continue Reading »
Both arrant trumpery and much of our current “Great Awakening” are lethal to Western civilization, of which we are the beneficiaries and should be the guardians. Continue Reading »
Nobody could accuse Scott Yenor of pulling his punches in “Sexual Counter-Revolution” (November 2021). His particular brand of reactionary conservatism is shared by many on the right in our moment. The general view of these conservatives is that the sexual revolution of the past fifty years is . . . . Continue Reading »
Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten God.” So far, the twenty-first century might be summarized in six: Men are at war with God. Awakened from agnostic slumber by new forms of temptation, chiefly the sexual revolution, . . . . Continue Reading »
Planned Parenthood recently distributed flyers at Stewart Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. The flyers targeted eleven-year-olds, informing them that they could have sex with anyone under the age of thirteen, and that their parents were not entitled to determine whether they took birth . . . . 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 »
The sexual revolution's vision of an utterly liberated sexual self turns out to be nothing more than an ambition for enslavement to ruthless forms of commercialism. Continue Reading »
“Porn literacy” is a technocratic evasion to avoid either approving pornography wholesale or condemning it forthrightly. Continue Reading »
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