Scott Carlin’s Reviews > The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution > Status Update

This is a superior read for those who seek to understand the bizarre gender bending fad of our day. As the introductory tease suggests, “Modern culture is obsessed with identity.” For most Americans, the Obergefell v. Hodges decision seemed relatively harmless. But laced in the decision were the Frankenstein aspirations of C Taylor, P Rieff, British Romantic poets, and the Continental philosophers…”

This is an incredible piece of scholarship and nuanced incite, connecting the dots in history that explain the current zeitgeist. Philosophy and theology matter. When they are ignored or when we failed to address them with vigor, the enemies of God make significant headway in the war against the soles of men.