"Professor Baskerville has written what well may be the most important book of 2017
-- he has written a masterly and authoritative account of how "sexual radicalism" has infected and transformed culture, politics, and the legal system. The entire narrative is supported by exhaustive research among scholars on both sides of the debate about the impact of feminist and homosexual activism on the entire criminal justice system which Baskerville sees as creating an entire network of self-serving agents enforcing laws that ignore the presumption of innocence, due process, and public transparency. Baskerville also shows with jaw-dropping clarity how "no-fault" divorces laws have allowed the intrusion of federal and state government so far into our private lives that "privacy" no longer exists. Single-parent families, in essence, have been promoted by government intrusion and the star chamber demands of "child support" which can so easily end up with the incarceration of fathers by ideologically-driven family courts. Both the government and the divorce industry have a financial interest in the increasing growth of single-parent families and the removal of the father. Brilliant and compelling, The New Politics of Sex issues an urgent plea that we cut the Gordian Knot of our radically sexualized culture and polity." Deal Hudson, President, Morley Institute for Religion and Culture, and former publisher of Crisis magazine
Interview with Geopolitika magazine (Belgrade, in Serbian), March 2018 (also in English)
More academic and semi-academic articles are available at Academia.edu.
New Interview with
Tacitus Today
(January 2019)
NEW:
How No-Fault Divorce
Empowers the State
Recent Articles
by Stephen Baskerville
RECENT POLITICS:
"Why Kavanaugh and the Republicans Deserve to Lose," Daily Caller, 27 September 2018.
"Barbarism in the Courts," Taki's Magazine, 4 July 2018.
"What is 'Gender Ideology'?", Jacobite magazine, 4 April 2018.
"Revisiting the Fatherhood Crisis," Daily Caller, 26 March 2018
"How the Government Creates Shooters (and other Criminals)," Daily Caller,
Review of Howard Schwarz's recent book, Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order, Taki's Magazine, 27 December 2017
"Britain’s Constitutional Crisis and the Politics of Sex," Anglican Mainstream, 21 December 2017
"The Sexual Revolution Turns Ugly,"
Daily Caller, 25 September 2017
"Tories Shoot Themselves in the Foot,"
“Britain’s Referendum and the Eighteenth Brumaire of Theresa May”
Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy, 28 July 2016
“Poland’s Crisis – and that of the West,” Daily Caller, 26 May 2016
“Poland’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’: Less and More Serious than it Appears,”
Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy,
(Longer Polish version in Aracana.)
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION:
“War ‘for the Children’,” Daily Caller, 12 April 2017
Daily Caller, 21 November 2016
"Why the Sophisticates Were Wrong"
Daily Caller, 14 November 2016
"The Sexual Revolution Triumphant"
"A Social Policy for Donald Trump" Daily Caller, 8 August 2016
"The New Ideology of Sex"
(lecture at Serbia's prestigious
Matica Srpska institute
Novi Sad, 8 December 2017),
Most TV broadcast
And What Are the Churches and Scholars Doing?
"Christian Passivity is Not an Option," Crisis, 27 April 2018.
"The Crisis of the Christian Colleges," Crisis, 17 August 2017
“How the Church Must Confront the Sexual Revolution,” Crisis, 3 May 2017
“The Sexual Revolution and the Do-Nothing Church,” Crisis, 28 April 2017
Published in 2017
Also perhaps of interest
And 2 interviews in Serbian newspapers
(in Serbian)
The New Politics of Sex
The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties,
and the
Growth of Governmental Power
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A new book by
Stephen Baskerville, PhD
"The Growing Role of the State in the Family" (lecture at the University of Warsaw and Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, 22 Sept 2017)
Discussion of injustices in family law and family policy with local experts, practitioners, and activists, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 7 December 2017 (in English)
Stephen Baskerville
is Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of Taken Into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Turner, 2007), and of more than 100 articles on the politics of the family, sexuality, and related issues. Read more...
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April 2018
Why the standard conservative defense of marriage is inadequate (lecture at the Ordo Iuris conference, University of Warsaw, September 2016) .
What the Critics Say:
"The Fatherhood Crisis:
Time for a New Look?"
Interview on popular Belgrade TV show, Dobro jutro Srbijo ("Good Morning, Serbia"), 6 December 2017 (with Dr Misa Djurkovic, partially in English)
Chapter on "Sexual Harassment" from The New Politics of Sex, excerpted in a special issue of Whistleblower Magazine (January 2018) devoted to the Sexual Revolution, along with other stimulating authors
International Conference on
The Human Person and Secularization,
Vatra Dornei, Romania, June 2017
Home Front with Cynthia Davis
And on another topic:
Newly published in an expanded edition in 2018, after 30 years...
(To learn the story behind this book, click here.)
"...a politically incorrect and outrageous book..."
ROBERT REILLY, Westminster Institute
Lectures & Interviews
Two Radio Interviews
about NPOS
THE DOWNLOAD
Catholic TV show discusses
The New Politics of Sex
- 58:57
Newsmaker Interview,
Patrick Henry College,
March 2018
Interview with
American Family Radio
(42:15)
The Never Ending March
...an excellent new book on religious persecution in China...
Keynote Address
Ruth Institute Summit on the Sexual Revolution
Lake Charles, Louisiana, April 2019
"I could not put this endlessly fascinating book down after opening it. It reveals how due-process violations and anti-male bias pervade family and divorce courts, and how the breakdown of the family due to no-fault divorce is costly to taxpayers, even as the welfare state fuels it further. It describes how a suffocating climate of political correctness in academia has kept the public in the dark about these abuses."
HANS BADER, Competitive Enterprise Institute
“The New Politics of Sex is a brilliant, long-needed diagnosis of the deliberately fostered collapse of the institutions of the West. It is a must-read for anyone who has authority (parents, pastors, teachers, politicians, administrators, judges, police, doctors, and more). Never has humankind been up against so darkly brilliant and pervasive an enemy as the one Baskerville unveils. Purchase as many as you can to distribute, and write about it, blog about it, talk about it.”
PATRICK F. FAGAN, Marriage and Religion Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Articles
by Stephen Baskerville
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Civil Liberties costs of the Sexual Revolution, discussed for Core Issues Trust
The work of philosopher Michael Walzer
(published article available in Serbian)
Europe's new "populism" is more than nationalism (Iasi University, Romania, 2017).
The First Complete Political Analysis of the Sexual Revolution
Sexuality has exploded everywhere throughout our society and is radically altering our culture and institutions. But what is the effect of radical sexual ideology on our government and civic life? What is the effect on our freedom and civil liberties? The New Politics of Sex is the first book that seeks to understand the impact of sexual politics on our public life. The results are illuminating and sometimes disturbing.
Think Tank Studies
"Welfare and the 'Road to Serfdom'"