One of the most perplexing conditions of modern society is that through direct experience and the mass media people are subjected to a constant barrage of seemingly endless social problems.
Beyond Our Tower of Babel
We do not hesitate for a second to call attention to these problems in a newsletter entitled “Our Wonderful World” because we are confident that they can be solved. Douthat draws a parallel between our situation today and what we experienced in the 1960s, with the war in Vietnam, a military draft, urban riots, a drug culture, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jack Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.