The “Me Too” Movement: What Would Plato Say?

By |2021-04-29T16:24:05-05:00May 16th, 2018|Categories: Aristotle, Culture, Plato, Politics, Sexuality, Virtue|

Sexual misconduct is usually characterized as some kind of “power grab,” typically carried out by ruthless men seeking to prey upon the vulnerability of a woman. Yet Plato suggests that disordered sexual desire is a problem of the democratic soul. Speaking about British actress Kadian Noble’s lawsuit filed against Harvey Weinstein on the grounds of [...]

The Mister Rogers-ification of Christianity

By |2018-04-17T23:26:45-05:00April 17th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Sexuality, Television|

I would not dream of condemning Mister Rogers for keeping overt religious references out of his broadcasts in order to reach the widest possible audience and provide a valuable public service with his message of love. What I do condemn is the idea that Christian faith does not deserve representation unless first watered down to [...]

Making Britain Great Again: The “Deplorable” C.S. Lewis

By |2021-04-27T11:04:02-05:00April 10th, 2018|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Faith, Family, Feminism, Sexuality|

Compared to today’s decidedly pragmatic US President, the tradition-minded Cambridge medievalist proves to be more exclusive and more provincial, for it is the creator of the beloved Narnia series who would resist tenaciously any attempt to flood his country with Norwegians, however law-abiding and productive. So before preaching the Benedict Option or crusading for pro-life feminism, let the [...]

Why Christians Are the Real Freaks

By |2018-03-15T16:31:40-05:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Film, Homosexual Unions, Politics, Sexuality|

The narrative of the film The Greatest Showman is familiar, but the narrative is wrong. It insists that there is this creative and wonderful minority of show freaks that is being kept down by the haters because of who they are. But in actuality, faithful Christians are the freaks, not the LGBTs… Hollywood has produced a terrific, though [...]

Do We Need New Gender Pronouns?

By |2021-04-28T11:11:42-05:00February 5th, 2018|Categories: Aristotle, Christianity, Culture, Philosophy, Sexuality, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

In politics, compromise and consensus may have to suffice, but in academia, it is absurd to let consensus, identity politics, subjective self-reference, or anything else supersede truth. A prominent professor of linguistics publically taught the party line on gender pronouns. It is not necessary to name the semi-famous professor because even though it is absurd, [...]

My Random, Bold Predictions for 2018

By |2018-01-04T16:59:45-06:00January 3rd, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Civil Society, Conservatism, Culture, Donald Trump, Dwight Longenecker, Europe, Islam, Politics, Pope Francis, Sexuality|

Let it be known that I am not a prophet, and I will quite happily eat crow, eat my hat, eat my words… eat whatever is necessary when my prognostications prove preposterous and my prophecies prove to be not prophetic, but pathetic. Nevertheless, with my finger to the wind and my squinty eye on the [...]

The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims

By |2018-10-02T13:33:09-05:00November 22nd, 2016|Categories: Anthony Esolen, Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Featured, Marriage, Sexuality|Tags: |

The sexual revolution has brought us a world wherein people sweat themselves to death in the pursuit of unhappiness. Some of those people, by the grace of God, miss their aim… What strikes me most powerfully about the defenders of the sexual revolution is their immovable abstraction. Always the matter is couched in terms of [...]

Are Conservatives Simply Unqualified to Teach?

By |2016-09-22T05:45:25-05:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Conservatism, Featured, Homosexual Unions, Secularism, Sexuality|

Every now and again a left wing academic (pardon the redundancy) states his prejudices so baldly and unselfconsciously that he provides a highly useful insight into the mind of his class. Such is the case with an essay published in the Raleigh News & Observer by William Snider, a professor in the department of neurology [...]

How the Hook-Up Culture Is Damaging Women

By |2016-07-22T22:43:06-05:00July 22nd, 2016|Categories: Culture War, Feminism, Sexuality|

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden A few months ago, a young woman at Stanford University [...]

Naked in the Public Square

By |2016-06-20T21:14:35-05:00June 20th, 2016|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Christianity, Culture War, Freedom of Religion, Senior Contributors, Sexuality|

The “Naked Public Square” is Clothed—with Intolerance When Richard John Neuhaus published The Naked Public Square in 1988, his book captured the imagination of a generation of religious conservatives. Neuhaus expressed the concerns of millions of Christians in particular, who saw public life being stripped of religious symbols and content. He went on to argue [...]

The “Miracle Year”: Was Life Never Better Than in 1963?

By |2020-05-12T22:25:29-05:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Featured, Music, Poetry, Reason, Sexuality|Tags: , , |

It might seem like the problem of the Sexual Revolution was its promiscuity because people began to give in to desire. But it was spirit that was the problem, for while eros is a democrat, it is also a master over willing slaves. Sexual intercourse began (which was rather late for me) – Between the [...]

Is the Target Boycott Different?

By |2019-05-14T15:43:45-05:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Politics, Sexuality|

The conventional wisdom long has held that conservative boycotts do not work. There is strong logic and evidence to support this view. Conservatives are conservative precisely because they value family and faith above politics. We do not virtue-signal in the manner (or to the extent) of typical progressives, for whom driving a Prius or noisily [...]

Bathroom Bills & CEOs: Why Corporations Are Siding with Transgenders

By |2016-05-05T22:30:17-05:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: Politics, Religion, Sexuality|

  On March 23, 2016, North Carolina legislators passed HB2, a bill that barred so-called “transgender” people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not correspond with the gender designated on their birth certificates. The bill sought to overturn an anti-discrimination ordinance passed earlier by the city of Charlotte that allowed transgender people to [...]

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