In the prior essay on marriage and the theme of unity, we explored a bit how Saint John Chrysostom might answer the critics of marriage and family, who level against the institution of marriage the charges that it is too atomising and too alienating. We have seen from Saint Johnās writings that the standard for marriage is that of a complete dissolution of āmineā and āyoursā, even at the level of the body and the breath. But how do we answer the charges we saw before, that marriage and the family are too stifling, too conformist,ā¦
One of the unfortunate genres of opinion writing that has cropped up in this past year, from the left-liberal magazine The Nation to the editorial pages of the centre-right Washington Post, is that the coronavirus has exposed the fundamental faults and flaws of the family unit. The feminist radical Sophie Lewis writes: āthe unfolding of Covid-19 in the United States makes more palpable, among other thingsā¦ that the familyāas the property logic and mode of social reproduction central to capitalismāis killing us.ā A month and a half before this, the capitalist Harvard professor Ian Marcus Corbinā¦
