American Culture

“Those who mock millennials for their self-absorption have clearly forgotten the hippies’ bottomless well of unearned self-regard.” - The Bulwark

“Indeed, divorce doesn’t just lead to father absence but to mother absence as well. Not in quite the same way—most children of divorce live with their mothers. But those mothers aren’t home. They’re at work.” - Suzanne Venker

“C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a collection of lectures he delivered out of concern for how the British education system, which was just one presentment of a larger societal disease, was inculcating subjectivity and ‘values’ unmoored from any objective notion of value, order, and virtue.

“According to recent surveys from both Gallup and Pew Research, more Americans than before have a negative opinion of church.” - Facts & Trends

“… by using presidential rhetoric more to praise cooperators than to slay perceived enemies, the next Oval Office inhabitant should re-inspire a sense of shared identity and common purpose.” - Washington Examiner

“Even more bizarre, both the Right and the Left have very similar solutions in mind. Both are very wrong.” - Jonah Goldberg

“These are empty, numb, detached people slaughtering their fellow humans because they are bored and frustrated with their meaningless lives.” - Matt Walsh

“U.S. adults generally can answer basic questions about the Bible and Christianity, but are less familiar with other world religions” - Pew

“Americans with a high level of religious knowledge have a warmer view of Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants and Buddhists than they have of evangelical Christians and are least warm to Muslims and atheists, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.” - Christian Examiner

“ ‘Accessibility, affordability, advertising, anonymity, and anomie, the five cylinders of the engine of mass addiction,’ writes David T. Courtwright in his new, one might say compulsively readable book about bad habits becoming big business, The Age of Addiction.” - The American Conservative