Ross Douthat on "The Decadent Society"
\u201cDecadence\u201d is one of those familiar terms that is trivialized or rendered comic by overuse\u2014perhaps you\u2019d say from decadence itself. And while most people think decadent is mostly a synonym for \u201csumptuous,\u201d it has a wider and deeper meaning, which is the subject of Ross Douthat\u2019s new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. Douthat, a columnist for the New York... Source