The world has changed. Things are not the way they were 60 years ago, 30 years ago, or even 10 years ago, especially in America. These changes feel drastic and sudden, like a revolution fought and won overnight.
While many in our society celebrate these changes, many others—particularly Christians—lament. We find ourselves wondering:
How was gay marriage legalized less than 20 years after a democratic president signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law? How can we allow men who identify as women to compete against (and usually defeat) biological females less than 50 years after Title IX was signed into law? How is it that a book questioning the transgender narrative was banned from Amazon when Mein Kampf is still for sale? How? How did we get here?
These are the questions that Carl R. Trueman is seeking to answer in Strange New World: How Thinkers an Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution.
Trueman’s earlier work, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, is by all accounts a masterful treatment of the subject. But it’s a seven-course meal: 400 pages of detailed history and
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