Are We Unraveling? Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

Ross Douthat, JULY 9, 2016, New York Times

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[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 commonground provided by the old Mainline­Protestant consensus has all but disappeared.

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