Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True0

• Culture
• December 20, 2018

One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as