The Public Interest

Human remedies for social disorders

James Q. Wilson

Spring 1998

WE LIVE in a nation confident of its wealth and proud of its power, yet convinced that this wealth cannot prevent, and this power cannot touch, a profound corrosion of our cultural soul. We are materially better off than our parents but spiritually worse off.

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