Daniel Patrick Moynihan could never have imagined how far down America might define deviancy when he penned his seminal essay Defining Deviancy Down.

By: Julie Jargon & Andrea Petersen – wsj.com – October 8, 2022 For busy families, gathering together for dinner can feel like an impossibility. Children could use it now more than ever. Robin Black-Burns’s teenage daughter has after-school activities that fall over dinnertime, making evening meals at home a thing of the past. The SUV has become their de facto...

What do people value in life? How much of what gives people satisfaction in their lives is fundamental and shared across cultures, and how much is unique to a given society?

By: David Brooks – nytimes.com – September 29, 2022 If you’ve been paying attention to the social trends, you probably have some inkling that boys and men are struggling, in the U.S. and across the globe. They are struggling in the classroom. American girls are 14 percentage points more likely to be “school ready” than boys at age 5, controlling...

As most Americans now realize, America is experiencing a societal breakdown. This should be obvious to anyone, even those facilitating this breakdown as they openly acknowledge they seek to break down American society.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that modern people have a pernicious habit of “sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.” We fixate on exceptions as if they invalidate general truths.

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An estimated 5.6% of U.S. adults rate their lives poorly enough to be categorized as “suffering,” the highest level in 14 years of measurement.

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Neither headline numbers nor reasoned economic assessments reveal the toll that surging prices take on many households. The non-monetary cost of today’s high inflation follows hard on the heels of the very different but similarly wrenching COVID-19 pandemic, and will likely have two profound consequences.