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All-American Despair the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers

Crowding out death: White Noise

Crowding out death: White Noise it still is… THIS is an America where no one is responsible or in control; all are receptors, receivers of stimuli, consumers. Some join Simuvac, which signs up local school children as volunteer victims in simulated evacuations (“Some people,” Gladney tells his daughter in response to a question about the…

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The Culture Wars Don’t Represent America

The Culture Wars Don’t Represent America Emma Green: What is civil religion? Philip Gorski: Civil religion is the way a particular people thinks about the transcendent purposes of a life together. One might understand “transcendent” in a traditional religious sense, or one might just understand it as some kind of ultimate value or higher purpose…

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