American Culture

“With the many illiberalisms duking it out in the public square, from both left and right, a new book puts forth what should be a clear winner: a decidedly conservative defense of ordered liberty” - Dan Darling

“In 2023, the two U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest shares of 25- to 34-year-olds living in a parent’s home were Vallejo, California, and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California, each with 33%…. only about 3% of young adults lived in a parent’s home in Odessa, Texas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Ithaca, New York; and Bloomington, Indiana.” - Pew

“The percentage of U.S. adults evaluating their lives well enough to be considered ‘thriving’ on Gallup’s Life Evaluation Index stood at 48.9% in Quarter 1, 2025, matching the previous estimate from Quarter 4, 2024…. the first time since spring 2020 that the thriving rate has been under 50% for two consecutive measurement periods” - Gallup

“A vibe shift is underway…. It’s easy to get excited about some of the cultural shifts. But it’s important to appreciate how far we’ve strayed from anything resembling traditional faith or values. It’ll take a vast shift to reverse these decades-old trends, which now have deep roots in contemporary culture.” - TGC

“the public’s views of Israel have turned more negative over the past three years. More than half of U.S. adults (53%) now express an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 42% in March 2022” - Pew

“Social media teach us that the world can be digested into these twenty-second reels or into 280-character bites. As a metaphor, they foster strong surges of emotion but not sustained rational engagement.

Based on Pew data: “Whereas Protestantism, including both evangelical and mainline varieties, loses 1.8 members compared to every new addition, Roman Catholicism loses 8.4. That’s an astounding rate of loss.” - WORLD

“It’s no wonder that this culture quickly becomes littered with enormous numbers of broken and now irreparable relationships. Politics itself becomes a new kind of religion, one without any means of acquiring redemption or forgiveness. Rather then seeing some people as right and others as mistaken, they are now regarded as the good and the evil, as true believers or heretics.” - Tim Keller

“By margins of at least 10 percentage points, Americans are less likely now than they were in 2017 to say there’s too little emphasis on encouraging girls to … Do well in school (27% now vs. 43% in 2017) … Be leaders (38% vs. 53%)… Stand up for themselves (41% vs. 54%)” - Pew

“Dog birthday parties are indeed very telling of our changing view of having children. Why does this matter? God loves people, and even after the fall He sees new human life as a beautiful thing. ” - P&D