Please read this extremely compelling and insightful essay, America’s Monumental Existential Problem, by Rod Dreher, which probes the defining question of how countries view themselves in the stream of history and collectively pass down legacies in stone, bronze, and buildings to future generations of progeny. In an unremitting and searing way, he compares and contrasts how angry seething mobs of willfully ignorant iconoclastic thugs are destroying and desecrating the public expressions of how past generations of Americans have viewed and expressed its secular and religious foundations, its heroes, and national glory, with how Russia, under Putin, has built a magnificent new Russian Orthodox … Continue reading America’s Monumental Existential Problem