When l googled “Ross Douthat” and “C.S. Lewis”, the first thing that popped up was a recent column claiming that elites are leading stable married lives and having arguments that pit C.S. Lewis against Phil Pullman (I have absolutely no idea what he is talking about in this part of the column), while the plebes are having babies out of wedlock because they don’t go to church anymore. Some of this may be true, even if the evidence is taken from a Newsweek article about a group that calls itself the Marriage Project, and I’m sure Times readers like being told that they are temperate, law-abiding Pullmanians.
But sometimes I wonder….what is the point of newspaper columns that lament how everything is going to hell because nowadays people get tattoos/spend too much time texting/listen to Carrie Underwood songs/don’t go to church? Is there any chance that someone will read a Richard Cohen column and rethink the wisdom of using emoticons or listening to hip-hop or whatever it is that people are doing this week that will destroy our civilization?
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