Category: Sexuality and the State

25 years of ‘Kosher Sex’

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach August 9, 2023, 3:48 pm This summer is 25 years since I first published “Kosher Sex” in Britain in 1998. The book, which in many ways changed my life, was written in response to two factors. First, my lifelong desire to turn my parents’ […]

Inside the Transgender Empire

Christopher F. Rufo Author, America’s Cultural Revolution The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement […]

Before the Quickening

Sponsored by Reaktion Books In the Review’s Sixtieth Anniversary Issue, Susan Faludi asks, “How can we learn to see accurately a woman who was not so much forgotten as buried in calumny?” In 1839 Ann Lohman, a midwife and former pharmacist’s assistant, began advertising her services, under the name […]

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Colorado Cannot Force Graphic Designer to Create Art Violating Her Beliefs

June 30 2023 BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Colorado Cannot Force Graphic Designer to Create Art Violating Her Beliefs NEWS By Mary Margaret Olohan “The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees,” writes Justice Neil Gorsuch. […]

Exiting the Sex Wars

Alex Kaschuta Can we heal our divide in a rageful time? The backlash to mass feminism is not surprising. Decades of cultural programming have assured us that men and women are interchangeable human units, and that any deviation from this norm results from stigma and oppression. But then […]

‘The Revolt of the Other Mothers’

“As a mother,” Anita Bryant told the Texas bar association on June 16, 1977, “I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.” The former beauty queen had cunningly used her status as a mother to roll back LGBTQ+ rights in Miami a […]

Legal abortions dropped by 32,000 after Roe was overturned

Theara Coleman Legal abortions dropped by 32,000 after Roe was overturned Harold Maass Why Republicans are worried about Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Theara Coleman The debate over Clarence Thomas’ luxury vacations David Faris Succession‘s shocking twist Joel Mathis Will Biden’s big EV push work? Brendan Morrow Ariana Grande addresses concerns about her weight Theara Coleman America’s […]