Junk Food and "Junk Values"

we live on the insecure surface of a fragmented society with ever-changing rules

I’m going to say it. Individualism is crass. It’s the pornography of social life. A little is OK, but not when it takes over. Not when it destroys social connection.

Last year, I read a fascinating and eloquently written book summarizing the known causes of depression in American life (or modern life in any dislocated urban metropole).

The book is entit…