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Grand Coulee Dam.  Air-conditioning.   Hoover Dam.  Empire State Building.  Over 3 million miles of highway.  Golden Gate Bridge.  Verrazano Bridge.  Holland Tunnel.  George Washington Bridge.  Automatic transmissions.  Commercial jet travel. Electric refrigerators.  That and more took place 1900-1960.   Since then…?  Almost nothing!  What! Why?

1960 is approximate date marking the end of Christianity as the respected central organizing force in American society.  That date also marks the end of our ability to build really significant projects like bridges, dams and highways.  Are they connected?