Traditions are experiments that worked

"A reader sent to me from of all places a book about winemaking - it would be a very politically explosive thing to say in any other context but in a book about winemaking you can say it - and the line was 'traditions are experiments that worked'." 

Louise Perry, Daily Mail journalist and author(ess) of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.

Can it really be very explosive to say traditions are good? Only in England?

In September 2025 Louise Perry announced she had converted to Christianity. “I realised that if [Christianity is] supernaturally true, you would expect it to be sociologically true. And observing quite how sociologically true it is was very persuasive to me.”

She said her views had increasingly aligned with the Christian natural law tradition. That sounds like she might become a Catholic. 

The natural law doctrine has been unfashionable among Catholic theologians since the explosive papal encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968 repeated the Catholic Church's condemnation of artificial birth control, but it has very amply been shown to be true.