They Can’t Drag Us to the Past

Earlier this week, I shared this facebook post from my friend Robert Bidinotto on Instapundit. (Link goes to Robert’s thrillers on Amazon.)

A BRIEF, OPTIMISTIC THOUGHT ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGE.

I have heard a great deal of despair lately about the state of our culture. Reading self-defined “cultural conservatives” (such as Rod Dreher) wailing that “all is lost,” it is easy to give in to pessimism.

Such pessimism seems warranted if you define the cultural battlefield in terms of *existing inst...