For decades, we’ve been told that freedom means throwing off restraint. But what if the sexual revolution didn’t liberate us, and instead left us lonelier, unhappier, and adrift?
Our culture’s promises of autonomy and self-creation have left young people disconnected from family, tradition, and purpose. That’s left us missing something deeper: what it means to love, belong, and build a life that lasts.
To explore this, journalist Louise Perry joins Inside Policy Talks. Perry is the author of the bestselling book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which presents a bold challenge to modern sexual ethics. She’s also the host of the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast, and co-founder of The Other Half, a think tank focused on pro-woman, pro-family policy.
On the podcast, she discusses with Peter Copeland, deputy director of domestic policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a “key historical claim” that progressivism makes about the “shape of history.” It’s been argued that “history is linear and has just got better,” says Perry, but now it’s time to challenge “this belief that the sexual revolution was obviously good.”
Perry will return for another conversation with MLI later this year. In October, she’ll be the featured guest for the next instalment of the Voices That Inspire speaker series.
In a live conversation in Vancouver, journalist Andrea Mrozek – a senior fellow at the Cardus Institute and co-author of the book I…Do? Why Marriage Still Matters – will interview Perry about the social and cultural aftermath of the sexual revolution. A video of that live conversation will be released later in October.
