A young Lasch.

Optimism of the Will

A response to Christopher Lasch’s critique of New Age

Mitch Horowitz
26 min readDec 30, 2022

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Historian and philosopher Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was among the most trenchant and informed critics of New Age and alternative spirituality, as he was of many facets of what he considered America’s cultural decline. I deeply miss Lasch’s presence on the American scene, even as I dissent from facets of his thought, particularly his

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China