Arshak Benlian (@ArshakBenlian), host of The One in the Many podcast, has now conducted two interviews of me on my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. Last month, I posted a link to the podcast of the first interview. Now, embedded below, are videos of both interviews. The […]
Arshak Benlian (@ArshakBenlian), host of The One in the Many podcast, has conducted the first interview of me on my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. The interview focuses on the book’s first and most important chapter, “Heterosexuality in Romantic Love.” Next week, we will […]
In November, I posted one of the short essays I wrote last February in application to a program at the University of Austin. Now I post my other short essay. I did not save the exact wording of the question, but the question was a variant of the famous question posed by Peter Thiel at […]
Religious Liberty Cannot Stand Without Liberty In the first two parts of this essay, I identified two important ways in which Ryan T. Anderson, in his book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, makes fundamental concessions to the postmodern Left in his defense of marriage. Here I identify yet another such fundamental […]
Romantic Love As Integration of Reason and Emotion Even more important than the legal reason I explained in Part 1 of this essay, there is a cognitive and romantic reason why the concept of marriage must refer only to a union of man and woman. And there is a way in which Ryan T. Anderson, […]
In his book, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, Ryan T. Anderson argues that, for the concept of ‘marriage’ properly understood, sex matters. That is, Anderson argues that marriage can be only between one man and one woman. In praising this book on its back cover, Princeton’s Robert P. George calls Anderson […]
This article by me appears this morning in The Federalist: How Choice And Emotion Can Influence Sexual Orientation Here is a passage from the article: If a person truly believes his own sexual orientation is good for him, then identifying his ideas and values consistent with his orientation can only bring him further good. In […]
The Dreary Rainbow of the ‘Anti-H’ Movement In a homosexual relationship, there is no difference in sex between the two partners. But in a heterosexual relationship, there is indeed a difference in sex between the two partners, and this difference is fundamental. The romantic concepts of a heterosexual are awash in the recognition and celebration […]
The recent decision on marriage by the Supreme Court of the United States is wrong in every respect. The most egregious respect is that the Court has corrupted the meaning of the concept of marriage. The Court cited two bases for its decision: primarily, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; and, secondarily, the […]
My new book is now available in paperback, with a new title: Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. The price on Amazon is $10. The Amazon Kindle ebook version, which can be read on computer desktops, tablets, and smartphones with the free Kindle Reading App, is […]