Sexuality

Welcome to Prideville

At heart, Somerville, Massachusetts, a self-declared haven for polyamorous people, is a community for people who reject community. Continue Reading »

26 May 2023

A Berkeley student approaches two older women. She has a flier in her hand. “Hey, happy No-Pants Day!” she exclaims, in the state of undress to match her words. One woman waves her off. The other is Judith Butler, perhaps the most famous theoretician of gender and its undoing. Butler laughs and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2023

Mary Eberstadt on the Sorrows of the Sexual Revolution

by Mark Bauerlein

Mary Eberstadt joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2023

Drag Queens

by Darel E. Paul

The queering of mainstream American culture has no more dramatic exemplar than the drag queen. RuPaul’s Drag Race, which began in 2009 as a competition reality show on the little-watched LGBT-oriented channel Logo, is today a global media and entertainment empire of four spin-off and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2023

A Bodily Faith

by Robert P. Imbelli

A Church that neglects to exhort and instruct about the sins of the body, be they sexual or social, risks losing its Christological center. Continue Reading »

31 Jan 2023

Darel E. Paul on Drag Queens

by R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Darel E. Paul to talk about his article “Drag Queens” from the February 2023 issue. Continue Reading »

26 Jan 2023

The Genealogy of “Gender”

by Mark Bauerlein

Abigail Favale joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Continue Reading »

18 Aug 2022

Surgery is the New Sex

by Justin Lee

The villains intent on snuffing out evolutionary adaptation through technocratic means are battling against nature itself. They are, in the name of preserving human nature, redefining it according to arbitrary will. Continue Reading »

8 Aug 2022

Saving Mankind

by Hans Boersma

Inclusive language is exclusive; exclusive language is inclusive. That’s the oxymoronic truth I will argue here. So as not to cause confusion, let me briefly explain. By claiming that inclusive language is exclusive, I mean that so-called gender-inclusive language (such as . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2022

Made by God

by Anthony Fisher

What is a human person? The question runs through all of recorded history, a puzzle for philosophers and poets, a challenge that each society has answered in its own distinctive way. Are we spirits or animals or somehow both? Are we mortal or immortal? Are we free, rational, choosing beings, . . . . Continue Reading »