Sexual Revolution

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Rise of Queer Politics

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Joy Pullmann joins in…

The Shifting Narrative Around Pornography

Jonathon Van Maren

There has been a fundamental shift in the public debate on pornography over the past decade. In…

Rome’s Mario Cuomo Is Gone

John M. Grondelski

The Vatican announced May 19 that Baldassare Cardinal Reina would become the grand chancellor of the John…

Women Without Men!

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Darel E. Paul joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…

Feminism Against Fertility

Darel E. Paul

When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least…

The Right Has Forgotten Feeling

Freya India

I'm not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot…

Radical Disembodiment

Liel Leibovitz

Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…

Sex in the Frame

Mary Harrington

I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…

Navigating the Battlefield of Modern Romance

Sam Buntz

Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy…

The Mixed Message of Anora

Mary Rose Somarriba

Screenwriter and director Sean Baker’s Anora won four Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Director,…

Andrew Tate and Conservative Hypocrisy

Jonathon Van Maren

On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime…

Lurid and Marginal

Dan Hitchens

“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid ­MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and…

Human Battery Hens

Carl R. Trueman

Britain’s Daily Mail recently reported how around one hundred young Thai women were kept against their will,…

Are Diversity and Catholicism “Equally Important” at Notre Dame?

Scott Yenor

Notre Dame’s provost, John McGreevy, laid out priorities for faculty hiring to Notre Dame faculty in a…

How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation

Lois McLatchie Miller

Elon Musk did the world a service by bringing the U.K.’s darkest crimes to light. The “grooming…