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My impression is that Ross Douthat, a conservative op-ed columnist for the
New York Times, is despite what posters to the comments section on his columns might say no Harry Lime. His latest book,
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success is, however, somewhat Limean in its application of the Frontier thesis to humanity at large, and in its insistence on the connection between struggle, expansion, and progress.
A substantial book by one of the more serious people in American public life today,
The Decadent Society deserves a wide readership. As its subtitle, if not its title, suggests, it is far from a reactionary diatribe. Modern civilization has been spectacularly successful in many ways, Douthat affirms, and this is to the good. It’s just that nothing fails like success, and we are now confronted by problems that are not amenable to the ideas and methods that produced them. Above all, we are confronted by the problem of decadence: the failure t
which to say there are some people who we don t believe are deserving of the same rights and freedoms as everyone else? well i think there s multiple things here. clearly, there are, you know people who feel their religious freedoms are being constricted by public policy decisions and we saw that with the hobby lobby case last year. but i think this does speak to a broader sense of unease in portions of the country about the cultural and demographic transition we are living through, which is profound. and what you see in mike huckabee s comments is an indication of kind of the magnet magnetic pull the pressure that republicans face. about half their base are evangelical christians primary voters. half the primary voters are regular church attenders. and many of those are unhappy with what s happening. the problem they ve got is that the underlying current of public opinion and overall society is moving in the other direction. and what we have seen over the past week not only from mik