Nathan, you expand on this a bit in your blog post, but this country owes a massive apology to Senator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy May have been wrong in some of the details, but his broad thesis was that there were large networks of Soviet agents and fellow-travelers in Hollywood and the US Government. And he was 100% right about this. American media and parts of the government carried water for paid Soviet agents like the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss for decades. And it remains almost a retro genre for our nation’s putative leading newspaper, the New York Times.
Yet somehow in 2019, “McCarthy” is a dirty word but an avowed Socialist who honeymooned in the USSR is on TV right now asking to be President.
This is only sort of a tangential point: Nathan, your observation that Josh Harris showed up as the sexual revolution was bringing the wreckage of a culture down around our ears. Well, that sexual revolution came from someplace, and the USSR has something to do with it. And the “deconstruction” that Josh Harris celebrates now came from someplace, and the USSR has something to do with it. And critical race theory (which we’re talking about on the Founders thread) came from someplace, and the USSR hadn’t something to do with that too.
The fruits of the sexual revolution haven’t gotten any sweeter in the 20+ years since Harris’s book. We as a church had best figure out how to make our way toward the ability to form functional families again.