Changes in America                                     <  😀  >
   
   A few insights by Christopher Caldwell in The Age of Entitlement:

1960s feminist revolution  
   "The GI Bill worked well for men, but women were left stranded in empty houses."

Johnson, McNamara and Vietnam  
   "President Johnson saw the war as an anti-poverty project. 'We're going to turn the Mekong into a Tennessee Valley.' McNamara was a numbers guy. The war was the sister movement to the Civil Rights Act and the Great Society." 

Reagan 
   "He changed the country's political mood for a while, but left its structures untouched."

Globalization's backlash
   "The main purpose of global value chains...was political. Sneaking a manufacturing operation out the door one stage of production at a time aroused less disruption and suspicion." 

Great Recession of 2007
   "Banks had trillions of dollars in loans on their books that would never have been made, absent government pressure." 

Decline in births
   "Bertrand Russell in the 1920s forecast what would happen if the government replaced fathers as protectors and providers." It would eliminate "paternity as a recognized social relation and tend to make men's emotional life trivial." 

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