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A Tale of Two Pregnancies
Most people who believe abortion to be wrong believe it to be wrong intrinsically. By contrast, those who do not believe abortion to be wrong make a utilitarian deduction: A child at the wrong time can be a bad thing. Therefore, ending its life can be a good thing. A...
The Cross Amid the Crisis
The following is adapted from a speech given on September 15 to the Society of Catholic Social Scientists upon reception of their annual Pius XI Award for Building Up a True Social Science. The event was co-sponsored by the Catholic University of America’s Sociology...
Critical Father Theory
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, my stepfather worked as an auto mechanic in Upstate New York, at a ‘youth camp’ nestled in a pine forest. The bucolic sobriquet was a euphemism; this ‘camp’ was a medium-security pre-prison of sorts for boys 14-17, mostly from New York...
Might Trauma Affect Gender Identity?
Another month, another social milestone. On June 27, Kataluna Enriquez became the first transgender woman in history to be crowned Miss Nevada USA, thereby qualifying to compete in November's national Miss USA contest. But like other recent "firsts," Enriquez's story...
Girls Will Be Boys
The storming of the United States Capitol last January 6, spearheaded in part by followers of the internet craze known as QAnon, set off soul-searching among conservatives. Suddenly, those who had only a dim awareness of Q & Co. were forced to confront just how...
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Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
Her logic—backed by startling new data—runs as follows: humans from time immemorial have forged their identities within elemental structures of kinship. Today, following decades of social shocks like family shrinkage and widespread breakdown, generations of people have been deprived of the building blocks of identity itself. This dispossession, argues Eberstadt, propels the increasingly frantic flight to membership in identitarian groups. The seemingly constant fury is, in fact, a primal scream for the familial root system of which many have been deprived.
Praise for Primal Screams
Leon R. Kass, professor emeritus, Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs
David Marcus, The Federalist
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Peter Leithart, Theopolis Institute
Jonathan Van Maren, LifeSite News
Mary Ann Glendon, Professor of Law, Harvard University
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Institute
Luma Simms, Public Discourse
R.R. Reno, First Things
Alberto Frigerio, Tempi
Gene Veith, Patheos
Tod Lindberg, author of The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Madeline Fry, Washington Examiner
Dr. Carl Trueman, The Gospel Coalition
Other Books
How the West Really Lost God
Adam and Eve After the Pill
The Last Homily
It’s Dangerous to Believe
“A tour de force, essential reading.” – Jonathan Last, The Weekly Standard
The Loser Letters
Home-Alone America
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Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics
In this conversation on two of the hottest social and cultural issues of our day — the decline of religion and the rise of identity politics, Mary Eberstadt presents her alternative theory for the “secularization thesis” (that religious decline was followed by the...
The Reckoning to Come: “The Rights of Women” by Erika Bachiochi
We recently had the privilege of attending a panel discussion on modern feminism at the Catholic Information Center. The event focused on Erika Bachiochi’s new book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision that explores the development of feminist theory in the...
After the Revolution: How the West really lost God
After the cataclysms of the First and Second World Wars and the Holocaust came a sweeping revolution that blew an entire civilizational framework of morality to smithereens in just a few decades. Today, in 2020, entire generations live in utter ignorance of all that...
A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
From the Weekly Tech podcast page: "In this episode, I am joined by my ERLC colleague Josh Wester, who serves as the chair of research in Christian Ethics and leads our communications team. We talk to Mary Eberstadt who is an, American essayist, novelist, and author...
The Great Scattering
In a phenomenal summary of Mary Eberstadt's works Praxis Circle writes: Earlier this year Praxis Circle sponsored an Internet-based course where we gave each Member “student” a copy of Mary Eberstadt’s book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity...