Marriage, unity and the ends of the person

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: ā€˜the unfolding of Covid-19 in the United States makes more palpable, among other things… that the family—as the property logic and mode of social reproduction central to capitalism—is killing us.’ A month and a half before this, the capitalist Harvard professor Ian Marcus Corbin…

Culture War? A Call to Arms pt 3

We ended our last post in this series by pointing to ā€œstrategies of retreat.ā€ But, I think it best we first address the infamous conflagration known as ā€œculture wars.ā€ For it is concern about ā€œculture 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 ā€œculture 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 George’s article. If I am being labeled as…