Culture in the Age of Blogging

Terry Teachout on the Arts in New York City laments the collapsing faith in a common culture:

"The simplest description of this change is also the starkest one: the common culture of widely shared values and knowledge that once helped to unite Americans of all creeds, colors, and classes no longer exists. In its place, we now have a "balkanized" group of subcultures whose members pursue their separate, unshared interests in an unprecedented variety of ways.