Until recently, it’s been an article of faith in most Western industrial cultures that each rising generation will be further to the Left — culturally, politically, religiously — than its parents. Recent news stories, however, have shaken that conviction. Surveys show that younger generations are drifting Rightward, embracing ideas and agendas that the mainstream culture has long dismissed as relics of a fading past.
In the United States, especially, church membership is soaring among the young. The assassination of Christian evangelist Charlie Kirk poured fuel on the fire, but the spark kindled well before that horrific event, and it’s the more conservative churches that have welcomed the bulk of the newcomers. It’s not accidental that young men make up the vanguard in this movement back towards traditionalism. Every social movement with a future worth watching starts by attracting young men, who always seem to be the vanguards of enduring social change.
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