“What fascinates and terrifies us about the Roman Empire is not that it finally went smash,” W. H. Auden once wrote, but rather that “it managed to last for four centuries without creativity, warmth, or hope.” In his latest book, The Decadent Society, Ross Douthat suggests contemporary America may be in a similar spot. He joined Shadi and Damir to discu…
Ross Douthat on Decadence, Wokeness, and UFOs
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Ross Douthat on Decadence, Wokeness, and UFOs
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