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• the new wealth in America is familial wealth, and the new poverty, familial poverty.
• After all, as jaded pundits remarked at the time, men behaving badly isn’t exactly news. But men taking for granted the sexual availability of any given woman, in one arena after another—that is new. That is something that only the Pill and related technologies could have made possible. Only in a society where systemic sterility is the norm would a...
• Economists are fond of saying that the way to ensure more of something is to subsidize it. That is exactly what the welfare state has been doing across the free societies of the West: subsidizing family breakdown. The sundering of the family has rendered modern government a flush but controlling super-daddy. This dynamic has profound political impl...
• We learn less in the trusted circle of the family than the people before us, because we have so many fewer people from whom to learn. Liberation from material nature has exacted an immaterial cost—a secure sense of self and place.
• In the United States, millions continue to look to government and to political-cultural “tribes” to replace what they have lost—connections to family and transcendent communities.