March 15, 2012

The Rise of Church-Switching and DIY Faith

Ross Douthat, New York Times

Yuval Levin has one of the most perceptive takes on Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” that I’ve read to date:

… the cultural disaster Murray describes seems to be a failing of America’s moral (and therefore largely its religious) institutions. And although he does not put it this way, Coming Apart is a scathing indictment of American social conservatism.

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