A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading...

A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading W David Marx’s latest: Blank Space — A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century (2025). It’s a tough read, presenting both a recap of the last quarter-century’s relatively dire cultural landscape and a reasoned argument for how this came to be. Marx is cogent on the prevailing winds (social media, rampant egoism etc) that have eroded culture down to…