Various Sources & Acknowledgments to:

Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg
The Fractured Republic – Yuval Levin
Coming Apart – Charles Murray
The Quest for Community – Robert Nisbet
Bowling Alone – Robert Putnam
Our Kids – Robert Putnam
Moral Tribes – Joshua Greene
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging – Sebastian Junger
Alienated America – Timothy Carney
Them – Ben Sasse
Men Without Work – Nicholas Eberstadt
Primal Screams – Mary Eberstadt
Coddling of the American Mind – Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
Localism in America – Edited by Joel Kotkin and Ryan Streeter
Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
Love Your Enemies – Arthur Brooks
A Conflict of Visions – Thomas Sowell
Vision of the Anointed – Thomas Sowell
Why Liberalism Failed – Patrick Deneen
Why Liberalism Works – Deirdre McCloskey
What is Populism? – Jan-Werner Müller
Cultural Backlash – Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
Dignity – Chris Arnade
Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide – Dylan Evans & Oscar Zarate
The Madness of Crowds – Douglass Murray
Authoritarian Socialism in America – Arthur Lipow
Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism – Joshua Muravchik
The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt
Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
The Fatal Conceit – F.A. Hayek
Novus Ordo Seclorum – Forrest McDonald
History of Political Philosophy – Edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
The Lonely American – Jacqueline Olds, Richard Schwartz
and Passim

PART 1: MEASURING THE DECAY

Decline of Marriage

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/survey-americans-reach-a-record-level-of-unhappiness
https://wellbeingindex.sharecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Gallup-Sharecare-State-of-American-Well-Being_2017-State-Rankings_FINAL.pdf?t=1518473023878
https://www.cigna.com/newsroom/news-releases/2018/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america
https://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a22740f/t/5bbcea6b7817f7bf7342b718/1539107467397/hidden_tribes_report-2.pdf
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-02-18-0602180138-story.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants
https://www.census.gov/prod/1/statbrief/sb93_2.pdf
https://www.childtrends.org/publications/dramatic-increase-in-percentage-of-births-outside-marriage-among-whites-hispanics-and-women-with-higher-education-levels
https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/out-wedlock-births-rise-worldwide
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/beyond-marriage.html
http://csed.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BYUC0014_Toplines.pdf
http://nationalmarriageproject.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NMP-BeforeIDoReport-Final.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/20/why-states-with-more-marriages-are-richer-states/?utm_term=.28ea73ff740d
http://www.aei.org/publication/strong-families-prosperous-states/
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/cheap-sex-and-the-decline-of-marriage-1506690454
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-reasons-why-im-not-having-children-childfree_b_5705311
https://www.city-journal.org/html/marriage-and-caste-12908.html
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08/19/the-most-educated-women-are-the-most-likely-to-be-married/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=es
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-marginalization-of-marriage-in-middle-america/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/14/as-u-s-marriage-rate-hovers-at-50-education-gap-in-marital-status-widens/
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr092.pdf
https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/04/no-way-live-interview/
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.826.9373&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1091/a968826628b7e11f6531335d1e3282eb0b06.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2584631?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://web.archive.org/web/20041113162132/https://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/pubs/ti13.pdf
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-11293-002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2htbDGOhI8
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/

Decline of Friendships

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/From-Porch-to-Patio-R.-Thomas.pdf
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/we-have-greatly-underestimated-feminisms-harmful-influence-on-millennials
https://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/It-s-not-just-you-New-data-shows-more-than-half-13706291.php
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/11/the-share-of-americans-living-without-a-partner-has-increased-especially-among-young-adults/

Decline of Work

http://www.aei.org/publication/men-without-work-2/
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1_krueger.pdf

Decline of Religion

https://www.apnews.com/f15241378057486ea437cad490a2ed67
https://web.archive.org/web/20150521045349/https://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/05/RLS-05-08-full-report.pdf
https://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/
http://s3.amazonaws.com/documents.routledge-interactive/9781138905269/TV-Outside-the-Box_Chris-Chibnall_Broadchurch.pdf
https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/worldfamilymap-2019-051819final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657484

Rise of Social Media

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MX3yHQ_LuCMJ:https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/we-are-hopelessly-hooked/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/25/americans-going-online-almost-constantly/
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-steve-jobs-never-let-his-kids-use-ipad-apple-social-media-2017-3
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-raised-their-kids-techfree-and-it-shouldve-been-a-red-flag-a8017136.html
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/sean_parker_i_helped_destroy_humanity_with_facebook/
https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-affects-society-tech-execs-2017-12#drone-maker-chris-anderson-worries-about-social-media-addiction-and-bullying-1
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-facebook-exec-chamath-palihapitiya-social-media-damaging-society-2017-12
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/23/never-get-high-on-your-own-supply-why-social-media-bosses-dont-use-social-media
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/irresistible-the-rise-of-addictive-technology-and-the-business-of-keeping-us-hooked/
https://time.com/2909743/americans-reading/
https://web.archive.org/web/20140622212129/http://www.vox.com/2014/4/11/5553006/how-americans-spend-their-time-in-6-charts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/15/internet-brain-neuroscience-debate
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/11/screen-time-linked-increased-depressive-symptoms-among-teens/
https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/True-friendships-in-decline-9967469.php

Political Polarization

https://billmoyers.com/story/real-digital-divide-afflicting-american-politics/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a22740f/t/5d101028495118000181fad6/1561333806922/The+Perception+Gap.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/america-one-room-experiment.html
https://hiddentribes.us/pdf/hidden_tribes_report.pdf

Dogs

https://atwork.avma.org/2018/11/19/pet-ownership-is-on-the-rise/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/americans-pets-too-attached/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuzxtxw11M