Ross Douthat, JULY 9, 2016, New York Times
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Excerpt:[O]ur present nervous breakdown is happening in (to borrow the title of
Yuval Levin’s excellent new book) “a fractured republic”— a society where elites are
widely loathed, where the political parties are polarized and one of them is so hollow
that a rank demagogue could seize it, where diversity and distrust have risen
together, where wage growth has been disappointing, where families are fragmented
and churches and civic organizations are in eclipse, where the metaphysical common
ground provided by the old MainlineProtestant consensus has all but disappeared.
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