Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an…
The ruse of “secular humanism”
Sex in A Secular Age
Reactions to Charles Taylor’s essay on modern sexuality (a sub-category of the larger discussion on A Secular Age).
Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good…
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York…
Marriage plots
Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the…
Sex & aggression
I want to raise some questions about Taylor’s account of “our moral landscape” after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution…
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the…