Counter-Currents
Tag: Havens in a Heartless World
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John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776
John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776
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Christopher Lasch famously described the family as a “haven in a heartless world.”[1] How is the world heartless, and how is the family a haven? For Lasch, the heartlessness of the world has everything to do with the increasing liberalization and economization of life. (more…)
