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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
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What happened after the sexual revolution? From the archive, Darel E. Paul reflects on the weirdness and badness that has infected public life through class-segregated abortion, drag queens, and feminist infertility.
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FROM THE OCTOBER 2021 ISSUE
** Abortion and Class ([link removed])
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** DAREL E. PAUL
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Despite the dominant view of war as something inherently ignoble and incompatible with Christian living, most Christians still approve of wars from time to time, deeming them “necessary evils.”
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FROM THE FEBRUARY 2023 ISSUE
** Drag Queens ([link removed])
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** RICHARD CASSLEMAN
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The paradoxical claim that artifice and parody are vehicles of authenticity is rooted in a cultural system we may call “the therapeutic.”
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FROM THE MAY 2025 ISSUE
** Feminism Against Fertility ([link removed])
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** DAREL E. PAUL
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Women’s “no” to lifelong socially binding care relationships is self-reinforcing. It exacerbates the gender funk, which in turn further lessens the appeal of the old patterns of intimate life.
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