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MODERN AGE

FALL 2016

It was a time before so many contemporary cultural touchstones: before 9/11, before Columbine, before Oklahoma City.
Before Harry Potter, before Lewinsky, before O. J. Before Lawrence
v. Texas, before Citizens United, before Bush v. Gore. Before Obama,
before the euro, before Y2K. Before Viagra.
Now think of all the distance that seems to separate then and
now, all the change that marks the last quarter century.
That's why to read The True and Only Heaven today is to appreciate Lasch's genius in a way no one could have appreciated it in
1991. Although written then, the book cuts to the heart of now.
Today it's clear what could not have been as clear twenty-five
years ago: Christopher Lasch saw beneath the superficial ebbs
and flows of American history and politics to the more enduring
and decisive currents beneath.
Before anything else, then, reading The True and Only Heaven
teaches you two things. First, despite what anyone might tell
you and despite how things might seem, the defining features of
American politics have not changed much in the past twenty-five
years. And second, Christopher Lasch is a prophet of our time.
Consider merely what Lasch calls the underlying premise of
The True and Only Heaven: "that old political ideologies have
exhausted their capacity either to explain events or to inspire
men and women to constructive actions," leading the "characteristic mood of the times" to be "a baffled sense of drift."
It's hard to think of a better way to capture the dynamics of the
2016 presidential campaign, isn't it? This campaign season might
best be explained as the product of a nationwide bafflement
with a political system that seems to have drifted away from the
central concerns of most people's lives.
After all, despite our disagreements on all sorts of policy issues,
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