The "Coming Apart" Case for Less Entitlements

And the values we should celebrate

The "Coming Apart" Case for Less Entitlements And the values we should celebrate Erik Torenberg May 28, 2023 38 4 1 Share This week on Upstream, I spoke to Sam Harris about populism, popularization, and his beef with the left and the right. This week on Moment of Zen, we spoke with Mike Solana about Twitter, Open AI, and the culture war. Charles Murray wrote a book called “Coming Apart” which says that the cognitive elite is getting richer and more insular, but not deteriorating on measures of community such as marriage strength, industriousness, religious belief, criminality, and so forth, wh

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