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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Maybe someday
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90/100Author:
Ross Douthat
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
Date:
February 25, 2020
A New York Times columnist diagnoses the sense of futility that pervades the modern conditionâhow we got here, how long our age of frustration might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.
What The Reviewers Say
Douthat’s message is that we are indeed in an era of stagnation and paralysis on many fronts, but that does not mean that we are facing collapse.
... clever and stimulating.
The book is descriptive and diagnostic.
It’s disappointing but not terribly shocking that [Douthat's] great strengths as a short-form opinion writer, his genius for synthesis and his extraordinary judiciousness, become limiting flaws in his new book.
