The Case against the Sexual Revolution

 Anytime you speak about something as wide-ranging as "The Sexual Revolution," you are going to be speaking in broad generalizations that cannot possibly hold true in all cases.  Plus we have to define our terms to even know the scope of what we are talking about.  Does The Sexual Revolution mean primarily "the pill" and easy access to abortion and a throwing off of classical morals around sexuality?  Or does it include things like the women's suffrage movement as well?  

That is the kind of nuance that you cannot squeeze into the title of a book, of course.  But the title of Ms Louis Perry's book is deliberately provocative - wanting our whole culture to re-think some things that we have been told to believe from childhood, and asking us to question some of the "orthodoxies" of our society in light of the actual data and sociological research.

Based on the data we now have, Perry argues that the primary beneficiaries of the changing sexual mores of our culture have been men, and not women.  I've read other research suggesting that women tend to be (on the whole) happier, less anxious, less depressed, and so on who live in more traditional ways and in light of more traditional values.

Rod Dreher is a conservative social commentator and Eastern Orthodox Christian and personal friend of mind.  It comes as no surprise that he finds Ms Perry's book a welcome contribution to the public discourse, and also (since Ms Perry is writing from a secular perspective), as a Christian, Dreher wants to push the conversation further in the direction of our need for a cultural and moral transformation - a spiritual conversion - in order to become a society that truly loves the women and children among us. 

 This is a very interesting discussion and very timely, and well-worth your time.   

The mysteries of "Beowulf"

 The "Universal History" discussions between Jonathan Pageau and Richard Rohlin are, for my money, some of the most interesting content on the whole internet.  In this video they discuss the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, and its many parallels with the apocryphal Book of Enoch in the Hebrew tradition.  Lots of really interesting and thought-provoking stuff here.