Gentle readers: Here is the full text of the talk I gave at the 2026 Touchstone conference, “City on a Hill? Christians in America at 250,” which is in the November-December issue of Touchstone magazine: “To Keep a Republic: Enlightened Self-Interest Is Not Enough.”
Touchstone November-December 2026
As a style of writing, epigrams go in and out of fashion. Here I try my hand at just a few.
Query:
I find that I don’t really care anymore. I’ve fallen into the now dominant ethos of modernity, which is apathy, which expresses as nihilism in younger generations.
Isn't it interesting that the progressive movement, once gung-ho for Prohibition, now wants to legalize marijuana? Progressives want “progress,” but the direction of "progress" keeps changing.