Media
The Sexual Revolution’s Legacy of Chaos and Misery
Nothing has caused more confusion and chaos in contemporary times than the sexual revolution. In her series of essays, Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited, Mary Eberstadt seeks to orient us in the midst of the chaos around us. Seeing the sexual revolution not...
Eric Metaxas and Mary Eberstadt: Hour 2
Mary Eberstadt follows up on her hard-hitting research surrounding the destructive nature of the sexual revolution with "Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited."
Conservative author withdraws from speech at Furman: ‘You can’t cancel me, I quit’
A conservative author has withdrawn from speaking at Furman University after a cancel culture campaign on campus engaged in smears against her. “You can’t cancel me, I quit” was the title of Mary Eberstadt’s March 26 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. In it, she...
Book of the Month: Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited
Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited (2023) is a totally different book than the one PC Contributor Mary Eberstadt wrote entitled, yes, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution (2012). In fact, they are literally and beautifully constructed...
How The False Promises Of The Sexual Revolution Created A New Religion
In the days leading up to Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on a lawsuit seeking to revoke U.S. government approval of abortion drug mifepristone, the Washington Post ran a front-page feature (read: hit piece) on him. It is not difficult to intuit that...
A Tale of Two Books against the Sexual Revolution
Following the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court last June, many women of fame decried the limits on abortion and went on a sex strike, furiously uttering the slogan, “If our choices are denied, so are yours.” Seeing this, I almost spit my coffee on the computer...
“What the Sexual Revolution Wrought” by Michael Brendan Dougherty
‘Who, for starters, has the wherewithal to attend protests night after night for months on end, as happened for years in Portland, Oregon?” asks Mary Eberstadt, in the expanded reissue of her 2012 book, Adam and Eve after the Pill. “For the most part, not people...
Mary Eberstadt: The Pill and the Fall of Humanity
You may not like Mary Eberstadt’s conclusions. You may even vehemently disagree with them. But the data is solid; you can’t change facts. Her thesis, drawn from various scholarly studies, shows how the sexual revolution completely changed the world; like a Pandora’s...
Daddy Issues All the Way Down
When Mary Eberstadt first published Adam and Eve After the Pill: The Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution in 2012, she cast a critical eye on reproductive dynamics in the post-liberation world, offering a contrarian message about the large-scale consequences of a...
Primal Screams: My Interview with the American Essayist
Tara Henley's interview with the American essayist, novelist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt.