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Attorney Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, Catholic Vote and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children.
Maggie Gallagher thinks the white working class is “dying of despair.” They face “a crisis of meaning” brought on by “a church gap” — less-educated whites no longer attend at the same rate as the college-educated — and a decline in…