Truth and Culture

Numerous surveys report, correctly I think, that most people perceive our moral condition as “down” and talk about a “collapse of values.” Yes, indeed, that is how they see it, or think they see it.

Everyone is always deploring the moral condition of his society. John Brown, for example, wrote a best-seller in 1757 deploring the effeminate and luxurious state of English society, England being then in the process of conquering the world.

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Jeffrey Hart

Jeffrey Hart is a contributor to National Review.

Numerous surveys report, correctly I think, that most people perceive our moral condition as “down” and talk about a “collapse of values.” Yes, indeed, that is how they see it, or think they see it.

Everyone is always deploring the moral condition of his society. John Brown, for example, wrote a best-seller in 1757 deploring the effeminate and luxurious state of English society, England being then in the process of conquering the world.