An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
“crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
there was a shift in the intellectual climate as well, which suggests that something deeper was happening—that the experience of the 1930s and 1940s had really prompted a broader reassessment of the modern story, and that the same feelings that had impelled Auden back to Christianity were at work in society as a whole. After the death camps and the
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