Finished reading: The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat 📚

Douthat’s commentary is unfailingly wise and incisive. He’s one of a vanishingly small number of writers who can make a case in such a reasonable way that those with different priors can still acknowledge the seriousness of his position. It’s hard to imagine a person of any political persuasion contesting the main contours of his description of our decadent age. Even his predictions and possible paths forward, which are by nature more speculative, seem sensible enough.