The Rabbi Who Chose Trans Orthodoxy
by Sarah RindnerFor Yaakov Smith, a transgender person who lives and teaches in Jerusalem, Orthodoxy is a bit like the exaggerated femininity of the drag queen. Continue Reading »
The Road to Bostock
by Carl R. TruemanDouglas Farrow’s Theological Negotiations takes the reader to the very heart of our cultural confusions. Continue Reading »
A Morally Empty Jurisprudence
by Hadley ArkesThe effects of Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC will ripple out widely in our country, touching and disfiguring our private lives. Continue Reading »
A Striking Display of Sophistry
by R. R. RenoThe Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County gives the LGBT movement a powerful bulldozer with which to demolish all public expressions of dissent from its agenda. Continue Reading »
The Triumph of the Social Scientific Method
by Carl R. TruemanThe politics of contemporary social science now has an iron grip on what are deemed legitimate perceptions of reality. Continue Reading »
Deleuze on Desire
by Angela FranksAndrea Long Chu, a biological male, explained in a 2018 op-ed for the New York Times why he desired radical surgery that would equip him with ersatz female genitalia. Chu was on estrogen and had already been castrated. He wrote: Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last . . . . Continue Reading »
A Call For Common Sense
by Ramona TauszSouth Dakota's House of Representatives will vote today on a bill that would prohibit doctors from providing gender transition surgery, puberty-blockers, or hormone therapy to children under 16. Continue Reading »
Seizing the Crown of Thorns
by Joshua MitchellAs we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk of reparations on which they will never deliver, it is worth pondering their motive. The support of black Americans for the Democratic party is precarious. Black America, the secret soul of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Against the “Fairness For All” Act
by David S. CrawfordThe “Fairness for All” Act misunderstands both the nature of and danger presented by the LGBTQ+ conception of sexuality. Continue Reading »
Bourgeois Vice
by Matthew SchmitzWhile driving from Illinois to Iowa, Donald McCloskey had an epiphany. He had spent the previous night dancing at lesbian bars in Aurora and now was returning to his home in Iowa City, where he was known as a libertarian economist and conservative “by academic standards.” Once again he would . . . . Continue Reading »
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