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Contact The Author Name required. Email required. Comment required. October 7, pm Updated October 7, pm. A new study finds singles make less money on average than workers who have partners. Pew Research Center bluntly declares: "Single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting.

John Adams famously said that our constitution is made for a moral and religious people, but would be inadequate to govern any other. We now are beginning to see the truth of that observation, as liberalism outside the boundaries set by the Judeo-Christian tradition degenerates into illiberalism — an illiberalism that renders people like me into enemies of the people, to use the old Communist phrase.

I believe that the United States is entering into a period like Spain in the early s. If I were a Spaniard of that era, I would prefer that we lived in a normal liberal democracy. But Spaniards of Left, Right, and Center were eventually not given that choice. If I had been a Spaniard then, I would have had to have chosen between the unsavory Nationalists, and people on the Left who hailed Stalin, burned churches, and threw priests down wells.

But the dynamic is quite similar. We all seem to be barreling towards a future that is not liberal and democratic, but is going to be either left illiberalism, or right illiberalism. We support him because he is the only thing standing between us and the radical Muslims who want to kill us. But it is beyond clear to me now that the woke left, which controls all the major institutions of American life, will use the power it has to push people like me to the margins, and congratulate itself for its righteousness in so doing.

I say that as someone who does not at all want to do that to gays, racial minorities, and others. If I did, I would oppose those conservatives. No matter how strenuously American and Western European liberals deny it. We have never had an honest conversation in America about the irreconcilability of gay rights with religious liberty for traditional Christians, Jews, Muslims, and others who do not fully endorse the gay rights agenda. I remember back in the s, when the gay marriage fight went national in a big way.

That was never true, but the media ignored it, preferring the narrative that would lead to the outcome they desired. In , Maggie Gallagher published in the Weekly Standard a really interesting article about same-sex marriage, based on a bunch of interviews she did with legal scholars on both sides of the issue.

They all agreed that there was no way to reconcile the two claims, at least when religious liberty conflicts with gay rights. The most interesting interview was with Chai Feldblum, then a Georgetown Law professor, and an advocate of gay rights.

Feldblum had grown up in an Orthodox Jewish home, and had later, as an out lesbian, advocated for gay rights. But she understood the religious objections, and took them seriously. She told Gallagher that in the end, we cannot fully protect religious liberty and fully protect gay rights — and when the two conflict, said Feldblum, religious liberty has to give way.

I appreciated her honesty. This honesty was non-existent in the media at the time, no doubt because they understood that to investigate this conflict would result in making it plain to the American people the kind of trade-offs they faced — and that this might hurt the gay rights cause. During this period, there were a number of state referendums in which voters rejected same-sex marriage.

Similarly, regarding the judiciary in Hungary, you will recall that some prominent liberal thinkers in recent years have floated the idea of expanding the Supreme Court to weaken court conservatives, who came to power by following our system.

How much regard to the woke corporations have for the democratic decisions made by elected state legislators that go against what wokeness proclaims to be just and right? They set out to punish those states. These corporations, who are accountable to no one in our democracy, behave like lawless oligarchs to push their woke social agenda. Where are the liberal defenders of democracy then?

Similarly on the question of race, I was educated and formed morally in the post-Civil Rights period. Kids of my generation, even in the Deep South, where I grew up, were taught that what Martin Luther King stood for was true and correct, and in fact profoundly Christian. This is true! I find this profoundly illiberal, and profoundly anti-Christian.

But this is how it is with the Western left: they sacralize certain people as victims, removing them from normal politics. This parasitic, illiberal leftism has come to exist within the institutions, structures, and practices of liberal democracy. So, when American liberals complain about what Orban is doing to minorities they favor, I roll my eyes.

They complain that academics are being forced out. It is almost funny the degree to which woke liberals are blind to their own manic illiberalism, and how their actions look to anyone to the right of them.

The woke are destroying American higher education. That is perfectly clear. And liberal democracy, as we understand it, is doing nothing to stop them. I was surprised by the first meeting I had with a state official on my fellowship, a leading parliamentarian. I was new in the country, and assumed that he was just putting a happy face on it. But I talked to others outside the government, and they told me that many of the Roma actually support Fidesz.

It is truly a far-right party. Last December, it formally united with the leftist opposition, in an effort to drive Orban from office. It would complicate the narrative. Anti-white racism is everywhere among elites, especially woke white elites, so I take nothing they say about Orban seriously. I think this is a wise position for a European country to take, given the evidence in other European countries.

In the US, we have been able to assimilate Muslim immigrants, but for whatever reasons, that has not been true in Europe. When I was in France this summer, I was unnerved by how frightened the French are by the prospect of intense and widespread violence emerging from the immigrant suburbs.

There was talk of civil war. There were none of those in Hungary. New York is a city with some of the worst income inequality in the country. Impoverished New Yorkers tend to live far longer than their counterparts in other American cities , according to detailed new research of Social Security and earnings records published Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That trend may appear surprising.

But the research found that New York was, in many ways, a model city for factors that seem to predict where poor people live longer.

It is a wealthy, highly educated city with a high tax base. The local government spends a lot on social services for low-income residents.