released 3/5/2021

From 1995: On Volume 17 of the Mars Hill Tapes, Ken Myers talked with Alan Ehrenhalt, the author of The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s. In that book, Ehrenhalt argued that real community can only be sustained when three things are assumed: the goodness of limits, the necessity of authority, and the reality of personal sin. Are Ehrenhalt’s concerns still relevant 26 years later? If anything, he may have been too optimistic . . .

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