While adults who regret their sex changes may themselves tend to libertarianism, their stories testify to a hidden horror: vulnerable, disturbed individuals of all ages hastily ushered into procedures that are nothing short of medical malpractice. Justice demands a reckoning in the form of penalties and strictures. Continue Reading »
Medical procedures that would have been unconscionable fifty years ago are happening all around us. The medical profession may never recover from its complicity in the mutilation of young people. Continue Reading »
If the Pride flag cannot even hold together the community for which it claims to stand, how can it possibly offer a stable vision for a nation and its national culture? Continue Reading »
The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new epoch in human history. Amid explosive growth during the industrial revolution, he thought we were on the cusp of material abundance. Marx argued that if we rejected the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Parental Rights in Education Bill is a step in the right direction, but merely appealing to parental rights is not enough. Continue Reading »
A recent letter signed by leading English church leaders implies that encouraging people to live the sexual lives ordered by their biological sex is a form of oppression. This strikes me as completely misconceived. Continue Reading »
The recent letter to Boris Johnson from a number of British religious leaders is an example of how sentimental mush has come to replace careful moral reasoning in the minds of so many. Continue Reading »
In Strange New World, Trueman uncovers and describes the underlying social and intellectual forces that explain why his grandfather would have rejected sexual reassignment without a second thought but President Biden can declare that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” Continue Reading »
Real women should be afraid, very afraid: Their rights are being protected by those who do not even know what a woman is. Continue Reading »
Nominalism has won, and politics has thus become preoccupied with language. Continue Reading »
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