What is lost when we no longer have a shared culture?

The Ethical Life

Episode 144: There was a period of time in America, roughly 1940 to 2000, during which we were largely part of a monoculture. Most of us watched the same TV shows and movies, read the same newspapers, and listened to the same radio stations. Today, however, because of the Internet, that's clearly not the case. And although this feels new to many of us, over the long arc of history, most people have never been part of a monoculture. Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss how these changes affect how we live today.

Links to stories discussed during the podcast

Here's how rituals can shape our cultural identity, by Richard Kyte

How the logic of cults is taking over modern life, by Derek Thompson and Sam Illing

The misunderstood reason millions of Americans stopped going to church, by Jake Meador, The Atlantic

About the hosts

About the hosts Scott Rada is a digital strategist with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Fulcrum Books will publish his soon-to-be released book, "Finding Your Third Place."