Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited
Mary Eberstadt
Ignatius Press, £16, 199 pages
In 1867 Benjamin Disraeli addressed fellow diners at a celebration for his first round of electoral reforms. “The quest- ion is not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, customs, laws, and traditions of a people … or abstract principles.” A century later the country he served would find itself grappling with an entirely different genre of debate, whose tidal change we continue to swim against today.
