Description: In Primal Screams, acclaimed cultural critic Mary Eberstadt presents the most provocative and original theory to come along in recent years. The rise of identity politics, she argues, is a direct result of the fallout of the sexual revolution, especially the collapse and shrinkage of the family.
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"Primal Screams is and should be controversial. It is also quite brilliant. I can think of few books in recent memory that eschews academic and journalistic orthodoxy in as cutting and well defended away. Anyone interested in the roots of our current identity-driven dilemmas would be remiss in not reading it."--The Federalist
"Eberstadt is a shrewd, thoughtful analyst of our culture, and scrutinizes her subject through a nonpartisan lens....Primal Screams is, then, important for readers of all political and ideological complexions."--Washington Examiner
"Mary Eberstadt manages the nearly impossible: finding something new--and worthwhile--to say about identity politics. . . . If we see more books about identity politics in the near future, and doubtless we will, they will have to grapple with Eberstadt's argument and take a look through the lens she provides."--Washington Free Beacon
"Mary Eberstadt's thesis is exactly right, and she backs it up with evidence."--Public Discourse
"Eberstadt's work is not only for conservatives but also for everyone who thinks about contemporary society and finds himself puzzled, worried, or in a foreboding frame of mind about the alarming spike in identity politics as well as suicide, depression, substance abuse, and loneliness."--National Review "Vintage Eberstadt: clearly argued with conviction. . . . This is a good and helpful book, and the responses of Dreher and company are thought-provoking and constructive. . . . Eberstadt's greatest strength is her consistent calm and compassionate tone. As such, she offers us a model for how political discussion should be pursued."--The Gospel Coalition"An incredibly influential, intellectual, precise commentary about current culture, philosophy, and the fate of the post-modern man."--Jonathan Van Maren, LifeSite News
"Insightful."--The Conway Daily Sun
"I wait for Mary Eberstadt's books the way some people used to wait for the next Harry Potter installment." --Fr. John Hollowell, Pastor of Annunciation and St. Paul's Catholic Church"Primal Screams provides a cogent, prophetic take on how and why it is that so many well-educated, materially well-off people--after all, this is mostly a Western political development -- do not seem to know who they are."--Black Christian News Network One
"A cogent, prophetic take on how and why it is that so many well-educated, materially well-off people...do not seem to know who they are." --The Christian Post "Mary Eberstadt is one of America's foremost public intellectuals." --John Stonestreet, Breakpoint "Primal Screams stands as essential reading for all pastors, educators, church leaders and workers, and, supremely, parents." --John J. Bombaro, The Mod "Mrs. Eberstadt's study is a welcome contribution to the current crisis in an increasingly secularized society. It is an attempt to pick away at a problem that is a vast tangle of personal motivations, subconscious drives and desires, societal currents, historical trends, socio-economic factors, and the irrational reactions of the mob. She's done well to hone in on a crucial aspect to shed light on the problem."--Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative "Mary Eberstadt's book is a thought-provoking, informed lead-in to a discussion that the world urgently needs to have." --Margaret Hickey, Position Papers