Mary Eberstadt is an eminent chronicler of the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies, which she sees as destructive of healthy traditions and beneficent institutions. In a series of books, she has examined the sexual revolution’s consequences, first focusing on the effects on children of divorce, broken homes, and out-of-wedlock births (Home-Alone America, 2004); then on the social and gender role changes wrought by readily available contraceptives and the simultaneous (or consequent) loosening of sexual mores (Adam and Eve After the Pill, 2013); and on the sequelae for traditional religious practices and the decline of the church (How the West Really Lost God, 2014). The subtitle of her newest volume Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politicsannounces unmistakably that she is continuing work in this vein. While the study periodically acknowledges that
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