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In the episode, Fareed Zakaria highlighted the book as a repeatedly cherished work that he returned to. He noted that it powerfully diagnosed the modern societal issue of declining faith in religion, tradition, and community without any replacement, resulting in a sense of inner hollowness. His enthusiasm indicated a strong endorsement.
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This book, written in the 1920s, powerfully identified the modern societal problem of losing faith in religion, tradition, and community without replacing them, leading to inner hollowness.
And the one book that I have loved and have gone back to over and over is a book by Walter Lipman called A Preface to Morals. It was written in the 1920s during the Jazz Age. And he first identifies, not first, but he identifies very powerfully this problem of modern societies that you lose faith in religion and tradition and community and certainty and you don't replace it with anything and it leaves you with a hollowness inside.