“You can feel something barbing the air, a poisonous atmosphere everywhere, / the clabbering of civility, the strange connections between click bait and road rage”
Paul Morland’s latest book shows that despite living longer, healthier lives, people are less willing to have children now than at any time in history.
From the archives: The catechesis of the 1970s became the model of what not to do in passing on the faith. For years I was sympathetic to that analysis. But now?
“Here in the overlap of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II and of the Cuban missile crisis, the latter has largely overshadowed the former.”
The mangling of American history has served to reinforce racism at the most fundamental level: through the stories and ideas we have passed on to our children.
