On Family Breakdown And The Human Animal

On this episode of High Noon, Inez Stepman interviews Mary Eberstadt, novelist, playwright, essayist, columnist, and author of several books, including her most recent, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics.

Eberstadt urges compassion for the “woke,” arguing essentially that many of us have been denied the natural family “habitat” to become psychologically healthy members of the species by family breakdown and abandonment of religion. She weaves together threads of sociology, statistical research, animal observation, and theology to paint a difficult picture of just how detached from a natural family life we have gotten in the modern age.