Mary Eberstadt

Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington D.C. and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an American writer and author of several influential books including Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited, Foreword by Cardinal George Pell (2023); Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (2019); and How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization (2013). She has written for many journals and magazines, and her books and essays have been widely translated.

Mrs. Eberstadt is a senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., and she occupies the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center. She is a Distinguished Fellow at Australian Catholic University and an international course advisor at Campion College, Australia. Mrs. Eberstadt holds honorary doctorates in humane letters from Seton Hall University in New Jersey and Magdalen College, New Hampshire. Her early work includes two years as a speechwriter to American Secretary of State George Shultz, and speechwriting for Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick. She founded The Kirkpatrick Society, an association that has gone on to mentor hundreds of writers.

Mrs. Eberstadt teaches during the summer at the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow, Poland; and during the academic year at the Leonine Forum, a course for young professionals hosted by the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Eberstadt graduated from Cornell University magna cum laude with a double major in philosophy and government. Updates about her work and appearances can be found on her website, maryeberstadt.com.

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