Christopher Caldwell is not a Christian writer, but The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties is the most hauntingly accurate account of how America arrived at its current cultural crisis that I have encountered in recent years. Every page feels less like history and more like a diagnosis — a precise account of the ideological pathology that has been reshaping American institutions for sixty years.

Caldwell’s central argument is that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whatever its moral necessity in addressing genuine injustice, created a second constitutional framework in America — one built on group rights, administrative enforcement, and a logic of permanent grievance that has progressively undermined the original constitutional order built on individual rights and limited government. He is not arguing against civil rights. He is arguing that the tools created to enforce them have metastasized into something that now threatens the freedoms of everyone.

This is a must-read. And it is a hauntingly accurate view of where we are in America today. The analysis of how elite institutions captured the language of justice and deployed it against the majority of ordinary Americans — regardless of race — is particularly sharp. The account of how the 1960s created a permanent cultural revolution that has never been rolled back, only extended, will help you understand why every institution you once trusted seems to be working against the values you hold.

Caldwell writes without sentimentality and without ideology. He is simply following the evidence. Conservatives, and especially conservative Christians, will recognize the America he describes immediately.

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Book Details: Publisher: Simon & Schuster | January 21, 2020 | 342 pages | ISBN-13: 978-1501106996