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Steve Hayward on ‘America’s Nervous Breakdown’

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With today's leftist Ahab-like obsession with the "insurrection" of January 6, it seems like as good a time as any to post the lecture I gave last summer in Budapest (cue scary Dracula music here) last summer on "What's Going on in America?" My summary answer: America is having a nervous breakdown. Slightly longer summary: we've seen this before in many ways, and sometimes worse, such as in the 1960s.

However, some things about the present moment are much more ominous than in the 1960s, such as how leftist postmodern dogma, which is indistinguishable from nihilism, has settled at the core of nearly all of America's institutions, including big business and the churches. Recovery from this will be more difficult than it was in the 1970s and 1980s.

I still intend to turn this lecture into a longer article, but I’d love to hear from readers on this thesis and answer the question: should my next book be “America’s Nervous Breakdown”? Or would a book on reviving breakdancing be better?

Host:
Steve Hayward
Guest:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (2)

  • Boney Cole@BoneyCole

    C.S. Lewis’s intellectual acknowledgement of the necessity of dogma must have brought him very close to a Catholic conversion. Protestantism has dissolved into fluff due to its fundamental rejection of dogma. The Vatican hierarchy has now implicitly rejected its own dogma. Unfortunately, it is now down to a small persecuted remnant of the Catholic Church to embrace and preserve the dogma at the foundation of Christianity and western civilization. In future years will Archbishop Lefebvre and the SSPX be credited with the preservation of the saving dogma?