Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Timothy Gaglon. Tim is currently the vice president of

external and government relations for focus on the family in Washington, D.C. He's a longtime friend

of City Journal in the Manhattan Institute. Formerly, he served as a special assistant to

President George W. Bush and as a deputy

director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. He's the author of several books on

faith and politics in America and has a new one out. He's going to join us today to talk about it.

It's called Stumbling Toward Utopia, how the 1960s turned into a national nightmare and how we can

revive the American dream.

So, Tim, great to talk with you.

And thanks for joining Tim Blocks.

Brian, it is really great to be with you and City Journal.

And thanks so much for this time.

All right.

Well, let's start with, you know, the kind of main overarching point your book is making.

You describe the 1960s as a cultural earthquake and see its after effects continuing into the

present.

What do you see as the most damaging cultural or societal shifts that originated during that period? And how are they manifesting

themselves today? You know, how did those changes influence in particular, big themes for

you and your work and your organization, faith, family, and I guess what you

could call respect for standards. I love that question because the cornucopia of potential

nightmares, Brian, as a direct result of the social and moral revolution of the 60s in our

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