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In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.
Paradise was as real to us as a memory—and even though it wasn’t something concrete, our minds were already there in it.
Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.
Of course liberalism is not perfect, and it may well be in need of a course correction.
Local MPs have also become involved, some of whom have failed to appreciate the dynamics of the situation.
In the main, religion is a force for good in the families we examined in this report—from 11 countries ranging from Mexico to Canada, from the United States to Ireland.
Rather than exposing and opposing the damage done by Islamism in the West, soi disant liberals, leftists, and progressives have acted as its supporters and cheerleaders.
Integrity requires each of us to bear witness with honest hearts.
Some feminists in the West insist that the veil—not just the hijab, but also more restrictive coverings such as the burka—should be seen as not only benign, but actually empowering.
I wasn’t saying that secular humanism is a religion. I was saying that in those aspects of religion which actually affect and seek to guide human behavior, secular humanism does not differ from religion.
Staddon makes an oddly tendentious argument for the religious character of secular humanism.
A revealing line is delivered about halfway through the film when Mason, a clean-shaven, bow-tied Satanist from Little Rock, Arkansas, explains that he’d been a “zesty little atheist” before becoming involved with the Temple.
In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.
It is my contention that we must protect speech no matter how hateful it may seem.