Recent Writings
What the Nurses Knew
Like most adults today, I barely remember life before Roe v. Wade. But I do recall the flashbulb moment when the new world order hit home. One night in 1973, my mother returned from work with something shiny on the collar of her starched white uniform: a silver pin...
Juan Diego, Great and Small
The story of Juan Diego is more than a powerful story. It’s more, even, than a powerful story in Catholic history. It’s nothing less than one of the most extraordinary stories in human history. First, the setting could hardly be more improbable. In the early 1500s,...
Catholics ‘Personally Opposed’ to Abortion? A Fallacy
From an excerpt in the National Review, pulled from the Washington Post: Everyone sins, and there is no such thing as an unforgivable sin. But leading others to sin, repeatedly and impenitently, is uniquely grave. . . . For many years, some Catholics in public life...
The Next American Awakening Starts Here
Some people say that there has never been a harder time in the United States to be Catholic. One can understand why. Public approval weighs against us: today, a furious secularism repudiates ancient Christian teachings about marriage and family, even as rebellion...
Midge the Magnificent
I first met Midge Decter during the mid-1980s through neoconservative publishing circles in New York, a world as distant from today's as it was, in turn, from the time of the Second World War. Though no one back then knew it, those years would turn out to be the...

Recent Media
Givers, Doers, & Thinkers: Discussing Identity Politics and the Sexual Revolution
Jeremy Beer and Mary waste no time jumping straight into the topic of identity, along with the roots of identity politics—where it comes from and why it falls short. Is the sexual revolution really to blame for the weakening of civil society? Mary shares why she...
The Politics of Belonging with Mary Eberstadt
In this episode, Helen speaks with Mary Eberstadt about faith, family, feminism, and the future. A podcast about being a woman in an age of erasure, distraction, and confusion. Listen as host Helen Roy speaks to great minds about the reality and possibilities of...
Who are You? Family, Politics, and the Hunger for Identity
In the episode I speak with Mary Eberstadt about her latest book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. She argues that the revolutionary changes to family structure across the western world: fatherlessness, divorce, abortion, single...
Why More People Favor Socialism and What to Do
Eberstadt said that it’s now been generations that a certain kind of anti-Americanism has been dominant, especially on university and college campuses. “What young people need to understand is that there are deep reasons why they’re being fed that narrative. They are...
“Truth may be unwanted, inconvenient, resented, mocked in all the best places—even harassed, suppressed, and forced underground. But that does not make it anything other than truth.”
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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
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Mary Ann Glendon, Professor of Law, Harvard University
R.R. Reno, First Things
David Marcus, The Federalist
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Other Books

How the West Really Lost God
Adam and Eve After the Pill
The Last Homily
The Loser Letters
It’s Dangerous to Believe
“A tour de force, essential reading.” – Jonathan Last, The Weekly Standard