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A recent article in USA Today captures the essence of present discontent in the United States. It laments: “In poll after poll, two-thirds or more of Americans say the country is on the wrong track. Oil prices are near an all-time high. The president’s popularity hovers near record lows over a deeply unpopular war. Millions of homeowners are in danger of losing their houses to foreclosure. And many more Americans fear the loss of their jobs” (Thomas Hine, “How to Tackle America’s Familiar Funk,” Jan.

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The article goes on to compare the country’s plight today with its tumultuous national picture in the 1970s: “Americans were shocked by the ’70s. We seemed to be running out of everything: oil, beef, even toilet paper. Prices were rising, and so was unemployment. Both the president and vice president resigned from office. The long struggle in Vietnam ended in a desperate retreat from Saigon by helicopter.” Comparisons with recent history can be very instructive, but we should not ignore ancient times. The biblical “song of Moses” also invites historical perspective.

It reaches down through the generations and suggests meaningful comparisons with the past: “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you” ( Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you., emphasis added throughout). If young and middle-aged Americans were to ask the country’s “greatest generation” of World War II what they thought of our current cultural behavior, what would the answer be? Would they be full of praise for our national conduct? Are they pleased with what passes for entertainment on television during the evening of their lives? Would they not think that what’s really wrong with the nation is its steep moral decline over the last half century?

A half century of American television Growing up in a small town in southern Texas, I well remember the sitcoms of the 1950s: Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, I Married Joan, My Little Margie. Although these programs didn’t always perfectly exemplify biblical standards, they weren’t immoral or suggestive. They were usually just relatively harmless entertainment about family life, and they always had a good ending. Fast forward to the late ’70s and the ’80s. Soap operas had normally been consigned to afternoon TV viewing.

But programs like Dallas and Dynasty (really just soap operas) hit prime time and proved to be highly profitable, long-running shows with vast audience numbers. These programs normally depicted the upside-down lives of greedy, power-hungry top business executives who broke every rule of proper family life and reaped “their just rewards” with dysfunctional, mal-adjusted offspring who regularly had to be bailed out of crisis situations. But even these programs and their spin-offs eventually proved too tame for jaded audiences who demanded even more salaciousness. In the decades that followed, producers gave them what they wanted: Sex in the City, Desperate Housewives, The Jerry Springer Show, to name a few.

The saucy, sexed-up dramas offered today have hit new lows. As one writer put it before the start of the latest TV season: “Traditional appeals to family values find no resonance beyond the religious and conservative base. This has so emboldened America’s TV executives, desperate to staunch the hemorrhaging of audiences to the internet, that the autumn schedules [of 2007] offer such an orgy of sexually explicit programming, even [Janet] Jackson will be blushing” ( The Sunday Times Magazine, Aug. Since the contents of the four main U.S. Television networks are subject to the supervision of the Federal Communications Commission, much of the most salacious material is found on cable TV. Up to two thirds of American households have access to cable. Television wasn’t alone in its downhill plunge during the last 50 years.

At the same time, much of American publishing experienced a similar decline in moral standards. As a high school student in the early ’50s I read men’s magazines like True and Argosy, fairly wholesome and enjoyable reading. The emergence of Playboy and other similar titles with their explicit content eventually caused these adventure magazines to disappear from the shelves. It should go without saying that movies followed the same sad path. The year 1967 saw the first mainstream film showing female nudity. After that it was all downhill.

Movie rating system was introduced the following year, and since then well over half of American movies produced have been rated R, meaning that even the rating board felt their content is so sexual, violent or profane that children under 17 should not be allowed to view them without a parent. How and why the moral decline? Do such trends have consequences? Financial Times feature writer Philip Stevens recently stated, “The overarching geopolitical fact of coming decades is likely to be the decline of US power” (“A Physicist’s Theory of the Transatlantic Relationship,” Dec. Morality is not really what he had in mind, but in the long run it may prove to be the most crucial factor in the overall American decline. With some notable exceptions, national leadership in all three branches of U.S.