It’s Friday, and this is an audio podcast of our weekly video broadcast of The Dr J Show. This week’s
guest is Dr. Stephen Baskerville, an expert in the politics surrounding family court. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on fatherhood,
family policy, and sexual politics, and in addition to authoring several books, his writings have appeared in leading national and international publications,
both popular and scholarly. He writes on comparative and international politics and on political ideologies with an emphasis on religion, family policy,
and sexuality.
This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here. Action items &, resources behind the cut.
Stephen Baskerville is Research Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, the Independent Institute, and the Inter-American Institute.
He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has held regular appointments at Patrick Henry College (2007-2019), Howard University (1987-1992,
1997-2005) and Palacky University in the Czech Republic (1992-1997), plus Fulbright Scholarships at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland (2015-16),
and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (2011).
He writes on comparative and international politics and on political ideologies with an emphasis on religion, family policy, and sexuality. He is the author
of The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power (Angelico, 2017), and Taken Into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland House, 2007). His other books include Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution (Routledge, 1993;
expanded edition, Wipf &, Stock, 2018).
Baskerville is widely recognized as a leading authority on fatherhood, family policy, and sexual politics, and his writings have appeared in leading national
and international publications, both popular and scholarly: the Washington Post, Washington Times, Independent Review, Salisbury Review,
Society, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Political Science and Politics, Touchstone, Human Events,
Women’s Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Crisis Magazine, American Spectator, The Spectator, The American Enterprise,
National Review, and others.
Resources:
- www.stephenbaskerville.com
- Video of Baskerville’s talk at the Summit for Survivors.
- Kristi Davis, abandoned spouse, and child of divorce, describes the impact of the family courts
Books:
- The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power (also available in e-book form)
- Taken Into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
- The Sexual State, by Dr. Morse. The entire section called The Divorce Ideology deals with
these topics
Action Items:
- Sign the Ruth Institute’s petition to Make the Family Great Again
- Pressure the media
- Create new media
- Mark July 17-19, 2020 on your calendar for the next Summit for Survivors of the Sexual Revolution
