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Consent to be Used or Vow to Love: a Review of Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex

What Emba most successfully conveys throughout the entirety of her brief book is an awareness that we are never “our own.” This is certainly right, but she does not go…

We Need a lot More than Romance

When I came across John Hockenberry’s essay, “Exile,” in the October edition of Harper’s Magazine, I had never heard of him. I still know little about him, though a simple Wikipedia glance…

Liberated for What

This piece is adapted slightly from a speech given at Spring Arbor University in Michigan at September's FPR Conference. The sexual revolution as we understand it today was not originally…
Katherine Dalton
October 11, 2018

Why We Need Jane Austen or How to be a Gentleman with Examples Good and Bad

Austen provides something for which young people—even the jaded ones—secretly long.
Mark T. Mitchell
April 5, 2011

No Flipping

But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to empower and affirm everyone equally, you cannot fool the American…
August 19, 2010

The End of Courtship

Today, there are no socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony.
Mark T. Mitchell
August 5, 2010