We Are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages (Katya Ungerman, 5/17/26, NY Times)
Demonic vexation, teleportation, increased interest in religious practice — those phenomena are all signs that life feels, to many, increasingly charged with unseen forces. You might say it has been re-enchanted. There’s a widespread feeling that the material explanation is no longer sufficient; that something uncanny, maybe even numinous, is diffused into the texture of ordinary American life.
Any excuse is better than accepting that they are the authors of their own misery.