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¦
We ended our last post in this series by pointing to āstrategies of retreat.ā But, I think it best we first address the infamous conflagration known as āculture wars.ā For it is concern about āculture warsā that spurs other forms of retreat.Ā In some of the responses to this series, I was surprised to see this discussion labelled as āculture war.ā Why was I surprised? Well, I have done little in the past two posts but assess how I think Orthodox Christians would hear and react to Robert Georgeās article. If I am being labeled asā¦
