The return of patriarchy? A demographic decline in developed countries may lead to loss of liberal values.(THE LION'S DEN)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: March 24, 2006| Author: Royal, Robert | Copyright information

Social-issue troglodyte that I am, my immediate instincts are to trust public practices that have worked reasonably well over long periods and to distrust social innovations. While I think every Christian ought to have an Augustinian modesty of expectations about all human societies, Edmund Burke is my guru in such matters, the Burke who immediately sensed the difference between the radical murderousness of the French Revolution and the salubrious liberty of the American Revolution...

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