With all the talk about the birth dearth and cultural decadence, it occurs to me that we have to have some way to recognize decadence if we are going to have a meaningful discussion about whether or ...
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, by Ross Douthat (Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., $27) It is precisely this vision of decadence-as-alienation that underpins New York ...