Sublime

The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the

Today, California is more Petaluma than Lakewood. In the 1950s and 1960s, California routinely built more than 200,000 homes each year.38 Since 2007, California has never once permitted more than 150,000 new homes.39 “In Los Angeles, fewer homes were built in the seventies than in the sixties, fewer in the eighties than in the seventies, and fewer

Pattangall then yielded to Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pennsylvania. “What would you, my friends, think of a home in America where the little children shuddered nightly in terrorizing fear of the hooded Ku Klux Klan?” she asked. “Oh, there are such places, hundreds of them…where a foreign-born is discriminated against by the shopkeeper, places where the

It appears that as Americans have moved away from organized religion over the last 10 years,

Yet if economic stagnation and unfair wealth distribution are growing long-term worries, Americans’ more immediate concern is how falling civic trust threatens national cohesion if not the very possibility of democracy. That’s the second driver.

The youth culture, as well as the booming economy, encouraged them to be risk takers in ways that their security-oriented parents found unthinkable.

Divorced women often experienced an immediate and sharp decline in their standard of living.