Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum expresses the fate of a culture’s dignity, its attitude toward its animating values.

— Roger Kimball The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (2012)

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