Sublime

When time was equalized and the what was replaced by the how, the bar on time was raised. For Calvinists particularly, every minute mattered.

There was also something innately American—befitting the libertarian ethos that individualism was the root of success—in the new oil and gas wealth that sprang from the ground.

“I was being advised to give up a common female idolatry and take on a common male idolatry,” she said. “But I didn’t want to have my self-worth dependent on career success any more than on men. I wanted to be free.”

It references reality at every turn and reveres truth.

For conservative white evangelicals, the “good news” of the Christian gospel has become inextricably linked to a staunch commitment to patriarchal authority, gender difference, and Christian nationalism, and all of these are intertwined with white racial identity.

Self-mastery became an art and occupation, as people sought to consolidate the era’s advances with improvements to their own lives.