PRIMAL SCREAMS: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics by Mary Eberstadt Templeton Found Press, PennsylvaniaHardcover: 192 pages Price: AUD$41.99 Reviewed by Lucy Sullivan “Anyone who has ever heard a coyote in the desert, separated at night from its pack, knows the sound. The otherwise unexplained hysteria of today’s identity politics is nothing more, or…
We have seen enough of the results of the 50-year assault on marriage to be sure that certain behavioural patterns, though “expressed in custom and reinforced by ritual”, are hard-wired and are for our good: that is, marriage works, especially for children. Lucy Sullivan writes. Part Two of two parts Marriage, family, generations are social patterns analogous …
Lucy Sullivan considers the “transgressive” motivation of the political push to redefine marriage and reveals the inner illogic of the historic campaign, which has been pressed relentlessly without any reference to the way persons actually behave. This is the first part of a two-part article. There are two strands to the political campaign for homosexual…
Today’s proponents of euthanasia fail to apprehend that the proposal has passed its use-by date. The problem in the practice of medicine that resulted from its increasing power to prolong the life of the intrinsically failed or failing human body has been resolved, and in a manner that incorporates both the traditional ethic that eschews…
