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Mais la société de solitude dans laquelle nous évoluons aujourd’hui est aussi le produit d’une série de batailles socioculturelles et de décisions politiques parfaitement identifiables, elles. C’est la rencontre d’évolutions subies et de transformations voulues qui a créé le désert dont nous héritons. Des combats idéologiques lui ont donné naissanc

Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)

Rather than calling for social change, they looked to the home as the prescription for relief, where a man could find comfort, solace, and a release from stress.

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism

Yuval Levin

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It’s tempting to blame the highly surveilled nature of modern childhood on parents too neurotic to let their children out of sight. But according to Gill, the “gradual creeping lockdown” on kids is in part a reflection of the built environment they occupy.

The Atlantic • Cities Aren’t Built for Kids

Libertarianism, like Marxism, is a complete explanatory system. It appeals to super-smart engineers and others who never really grow up.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

He had to save the nation from its own moral failings because other men were unable to contain their sexual passions.

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact a veneer hiding a new barbarism. He saw that our elite liberal culture has a very definite vision, however much it talks about diversity, multiculturalism, and the like: the relativism of moral truth. This anti-dogmatic dogma, he thought, is leadin... See more

Instead it is an argument to get to work building that kind of social trust in as many places as possible, because we’re going to need it. We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75 years aren’t ... See more

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Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism

The Atlantic • Cities Aren’t Built for Kids

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Bill McKibben • 'Where Should I Live?'