5. Love Among the Eloi

0.     Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 11, 12, 14.

0.     All samples are drawn from Pascal Bruckner, The Temptation of Innocence: Living in the Age of Entitlement (New York: Algora Publishing, 2000).

0.     Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria, 52.

0.     Michel Houellebecq, Platform (New York: Vintage, 2004); original French version (Paris: Flammarion, 2001).

0.     Andrew Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 16–22.

0.     Ibid., 24–35, 114.

0.     See the discussion of Reich’s ideas and influence in Carlo Lancellotti’s excellent translation of Augusto Del Noce, The Crisis of Modernity (Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2014), especially 216.

0.     Michael Hanby, “The Brave New World of Same-Sex Marriage: A Decisive Moment in the Triumph of Technology over Humanity,” Federalist, February 19, 2014.

0.     See Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse,” Vanity Fair, September 2015; Scott Calvert, “‘Sexting’ Case Rocks Colorado Town,” Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2015; ashleymadison.com, one of many adultery dating sites; Veronica Dagher, “Why Postnups Are Rising,” Wall Street Journal, March 12–13, 2016; Sue Schellenbarger, “A Sense of Loss That’s Hard to Explain to the Boss,” Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2015; Kate Taylor, “Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game Too,” New York Times, July 12, 2013.

0.   Del Noce, Crisis of Modernity, 158; for the fullness of his argument, see the chapter “The Ascendance of Eroticism,” 157–86.

0.   Lead editorial, “The New Intolerance,” Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2015.

0.   Margaret Hagen, “Transgenderism Has No Basis in Science or Law,” Public Discourse, January 13, 2016; Paul McHugh, “Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme,” Public Discourse, June 10, 2015; Walt Heyer, “50 Years of Sex Changes, Mental Disorders and Too Many Suicides,” Public Discourse, February 2, 2016. See also sexchangeregret.com and waltheyer.com for alternative testimony from transgender voices.

0.   The first three of these stories are from the Philadelphia Inquirer, appearing from June 2014 through April 2015, but others followed through 2016. “Heather Has Two Genders,” by Meghan Cox Gurdon, appeared in the Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2014.

0.   Melanie Phillips, “It’s Dangerous and Wrong to Tell All Children They’re ‘Gender Fluid,’” Spectator, January 30, 2016.

0.   Scott Pruitt, “Why We’re Suing Over Obama’s Transgender Power Play,” Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2016.

0.   Mickey Mattox, “Marquette’s Gender Regime,” First Things, April 2016.

0.   Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), 158.

0.   Mitch Pearlstein, Broken Bonds: What Family Fragmentation Means for America’s Future (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), 23.

0.   Ibid., 24.

0.   Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 486.

0.   Ibid., 487.

0.   Murray, Coming Apart, 69.

0.   Ibid., 167.

0.   Ibid., 240–47.

0.   Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2010), 248.

0.   Roger Scruton, The Face of God (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), 102.

0.   Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), 90–91.

0.   Daniel M. Bell Jr., The Economy of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2012), 105–6.