Adam And Eve After The Pill: Revisited

Celebrated author Mary Eberstadt continues her ground breaking examination of the true legacy of the sexual revolution. The book’s predecessor, Adam and Eve after the Pill (2012), dissected the revolution’s microcosmic fallout via its empirical effects on the lives of today’s men, women, and children. This follow-on book tackles, as no other book, the revolution’s macrocosmic transformations in three wider spheres: society, politics, and Church. With unflinching logic, it summarises the toll on Western society of today’s fractured homes, feral children, and social isolates. Empathetic yet precise, it connects the dots between shrinking and broken families to the stunning rise in sexual confusion symbolised by transgenderism and gender ideology, and related phenomena. The book traces the same dissolution of the home to signature developments in Western politics, especially the rises in acrimony, polarisation, street violence, and identity politics. The result is a damning indictment of the turn taken by much of the world following the post, 1960s embrace of contraception and the stigmatisation of Catholic teaching about sex. The book’s section on the revolution’s itinerant infiltration of the Church is must-reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Western Christianity. In a moment when millions wonder whether the Catholic Church will retreat from age-old moral teachings, this is the one book that demands to be put at the center of discussion. It is both an indispensable blueprint for today’s emerging revisionism, and a manifesto for a more humane order to come.

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