Humankind over the centuries has seen an evolution. We go from hunter gatherers to Agricultural Societies to principalities up to the Industrial Revolution. And there is a process which social institutions become more complex. They develop certain features. Marx said this process would culminate in a utopia. I think most progressive intellectuals for the one or 50i years actually believed in the end of history but they thought ulit was communism. My argument was we did not seem to be going that this is before the collapse of the soviet union. The idea was there did seem to be a process of modernization there was people wanted to live in modern societies the kind of modern society we seem to be ending up that was liberal democracy and capitalism not socialism. In a sense we are getting off the strain of history one stop before the where the commonness of the marxist get off. Stuart professes btk you were talking in 2006 about you 1992 book the end of history and the last man. Do what yo
Revisited. Host author Mary Eberstadt, where why are there two versions of your book . Mary there are actually two books. The first was written about 10 years ago called adam and eve after the pill. It is about about a decade later, i published adam and eve after the pill, revisited which looks at society and christianity itself. We are taking in the biggest possible terrain. Host what are some of those macro trends that you have noticed . Mary it is a big story, but lets try to do the short version. I have been interested in tracing the faultlines that are beneath society as we know it. I am not a reporter. I tried to get underneath at the big things that are transforming our world. One of these things is the sexual revolution and the collapse of christianity, which begins in the early 1960s. Now, what is the effect of these trends . One thing that has happened is that emilys have gotten smaller. Families are more broken than they used to be. Many people live alone, who did not used t
Revisited. Host author Mary Eberstadt, where why are there two versions of your book . Mary there are actually two books. The first was written about 10 years ago called adam and eve after the pill. It is about about a decade later, i published adam and eve after the pill, revisited which looks at society and christianity itself. We are taking in the biggest possible terrain. Host what are some of those macro trends that you have noticed . Mary it is a big story, but lets try to do the short version. I have been interested in tracing the faultlines that are beneath society as we know it. I am not a reporter. I tried to get underneath at the big things that are transforming our world. One of these things is the sexual revolution and the collapse of christianity, which begins in the early 1960s. Now, what is the effect of these trends . One thing that has happened is that emilys have gotten smaller. Families are more broken than they used to be. Many people live alone, who did not used t
Revisited. Host author Mary Eberstadt, where why are there two versions of your book . Mary there are actually two books. The first was written about 10 years ago called adam and eve after the pill. It is about about a decade later, i published adam and eve after the pill, revisited which looks at society and christianity itself. We are taking in the biggest possible terrain. Host what are some of those macro trends that you have noticed . Mary it is a big story, but lets try to do the short version. I have been interested in tracing the faultlines that are beneath society as we know it. I am not a reporter. I tried to get underneath at the big things that are transforming our world. One of these things is the sexual revolution and the collapse of christianity, which begins in the early 1960s. Now, what is the effect of these trends . One thing that has happened is that emilys have gotten smaller. Families are more broken than they used to be. Many people live alone, who did not used t
Revisited. Host author Mary Eberstadt author Mary Eberstadt why are there two versions of your book adam and eve after the pill and adam and eve after the pill revisited . Care to books peter. The first one written about 10 years ago called adam and eve after the pill was what i call a microscopic look at the effects of the revolution to individuals with men, women, children and a decade later adam and eve after the pill revisited which is a macrotopic of the revolution on politics on society and christianity itself. So the aperture has been widened. What are some of those macrotrends . Well its a long story. Lets try to do the short version here. D ive been interested for a long and tracing the fault lines that are beneath society as you know it. Im not a reporter, i dont look at the surface. I tried to get underneath the trends that are transforming our these trends is the sexual revolution and the concomitant of christianity which begins really in the early 1960s. What is the effect