Mary Eberstadt is an American essayist, novelist, and author of several books exploring the intersections of religious and cultural issues. She holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Faith and Reason Institute. She formerly served as a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of National Interest magazine, member of the Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department, speechwriter for then Secretary of State George P. Shultz and special assistant to Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Eberstadt was also a managing editor of the Public Interest. She has contributed to many journals and magazines and is author of several influential books, including Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics; How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution and It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies.