The 20th century American social activist Dorothy Day is credited with once having said in regard to a looming national election, “Don’t vote – it will just encourage them!”
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Ken Myers, Executive Producer of the excellent bi-monthly audio journal and website,
Mars Hill Audio, wonders about the loss of cultural authority and notions of eternal truth in the face of exploding media technologies. These issues are raised in a brief review of Andrew Keen’s book,
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture. Check it out here:
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I recently read a very incisive and sobering article on the now-decades-long decline of mainline religion in America. The essay is written by Joseph Bottom in the August/September issue of
First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life, and is titled “The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline” (
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6254).
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