Mary Eberstadt | The Sexual Revolution Was a Mistake

In this Direct interview, John is joined by author, essayist, novelist and commentator Mary Eberstadt as they tackle contentious issues including the impacts of the sexual revolution, the decline of the nuclear family, the #MeToo movement, the politicisation of sexual identity and much more.

Eberstadt argues that the sexual revolution has wrought great harm upon Western families, and despite lofty ideals of empowered individuals seeking, and finding, long-lasting pleasure, it has in fact resulted in atomisation, loneliness and deep misery & disconnection for many people, especially women and children.

Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair at the Catholic Information Center and is a senior fellow with the Faith and Reason Institute. She is the author of several books, including Primal Screams and How the West Really Lost God, and has written widely for newspapers, magazines, and journals.

A frequent contributor to magazines and journals including TIME, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and First Things, Eberstadt has also served as an editor at The Public Interest, The National Interest, and Policy Review. During the Reagan administration, Mrs. Eberstadt spent two years as a speechwriter to Secretary of State George Shultz. In summer 1981, she became the first female voting member of the student body at formerly all-male Deep Springs College.

Links
Mary Eberstadt on Triggernometry:    • "The Sexual Revolution Created Identity Po...  
The Combarhee River Collective Statement: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/site...

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00:00 Intro
00:31 Introducing Mary Eberstadt
02:25 Suffering through radical social change
07:00 The rise of identity politics
12:30 The damages of the sexual revolution
18:15 Unhappiness and loneliness amongst the younger generation
24:00 The consequences of fatherlessness
28:20 MeToo and the sexual revolution
32:00 How animals reveal the importance of family
36:50 Christianity as a foundation of social identity and ethics
41:00 The importance of forgiveness and redemption
45:50 Secularisation in the West
49:00 Political action for restoring families
55:30 A call to political tolerance
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