Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Michael Barone, editor of the Almanac on American Politics on social changes since the Almanac first appeared some 40 years ago.

One way to describe it is to say that the attitudes of the 1960s counterculture – that we can have sex before we’re married, having kids out of wedlock is not harmful, that kids don’t really need two parents – spread to the wider society in the 1970s. What’s happened since then is that we’ve seen a modulation of some of these data. For example, since the early 1990s, abortion rates have been declining. Today, attitudes toward abortion among Americans under the age of thirty are more negative than among those over thirty.

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