Sexual Revolution
A selection of recent articles on this topic
American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction
With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the…
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
The framework for this book by economic historian Robert William Fogel, 1993 Nobel Prize“winner in economics, is…
The New Map of the World
Modernity has attracted its fair share of critics. Recent specimens would include Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Eric…
Teresa of Ávila: The Progress of a Soul
Most people know St. Teresa of Ávila (1515“1582), the Spanish mystic, prolific spiritual writer, and indomitable Carmelite…
Sex and the Married Missileer
At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…
Proposing Courtship
Anyone interested in improving relations between men and women today and tomorrow must proceed by taking a…
Talking Straight
Homosexuality and American Public Life.Edited by Christopher Wolfe.Introduction by William Kristol.Spence. 320 pp. $29.95 Among activists who…
The First Modern Woman
Contrary to popular opinion, current American sexual practice began not in the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s…
The Sexual Counterrevolution
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.By Wendy Shalit.Free Press. 304 pp. $24. Despite its modest…
Daddy’s Little Girl
What went wrong with Alice Walker’s new book, her first novel in six years? By the Light…
The San Francisco Solution
In a pair of side-by-side op-ed pieces last April, the San Francisco Chronicle presented a double critique…
Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes …
“Whatever your view of same-sex marriage,” declared Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic, “in all likelihood, within…
Homosexuality and the Truth
Strangers and Friends By Michael Vasey. Hodder & Stoughton (London), 276 pages. Homosexuality and the Politics of…
The Uses of Clerical Scandal
When the Pope visited the United States last fall, the media indulged in a predictably frenzied examination…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
