Biography
Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an essayist, novelist, and author of several books of non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in magazines including First Things, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, and other venues.
Mary Eberstadt grew up in rural, upstate New York and graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University, where she was a four-year Telluride Scholar. Mrs. Eberstadt is married to author and demographer Nicholas Eberstadt.
Her latest book, Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited (2023), examines the fallout of the sexual revolution on society, politics, and Christianity and includes a Foreword by the late Cardinal George Pell. Her 2019 book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, argues that secularization combined with family implosion has given rise to a widespread crisis of identity. Other books include It’s Dangerous to Believe (2016), How the West Really Lost God (2013), and Adam and Eve After the Pill (2012).
Mrs. Eberstadt served as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2002–2013. From 1990 to 1998, she was executive editor of National Interest magazine. Between 1985 and 1987, she was a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Schultz. She is also the founder of the Kirkpatrick Society, named after her late mentor, U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick.