Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited

In her landmark 2012 book Adam and Eve after the Pill, Mary Eberstadt described in detail how the sexual revolution had wrought havoc on the modern world. Now, more than a decade later, she returns to the subject — and finds the case for serious second thoughts about that revolution stronger than ever.

Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited brings together Eberstadt’s most recent essays on contraception, abortion, family breakdown, the rise of identity politics, the new intolerance, and the unexpected ways post-revolutionary culture has begun to question its founding assumptions. Drawing on the latest social-science research and on developments inside and outside the Church, she shows that the “human costs” first sketched in 2012 have only multiplied since.

With a Foreword by the late Cardinal George Pell, this 2023 volume from Ignatius Press is essential reading for anyone trying to understand — and respond to — the seismic cultural transformation that began with the Pill.