I applaud Dr. Grazie Christie’s bravery in the Dec. 13 issue, in which she dared to praise the unusual pro-life messaging of Volvo’s latest video advertisement. Taken together with a few other recent examples of a popular turn away from woke antics, I want to believe it will mark some kind of turning point in culture (although I suspect it won’t). 

She did well to contrast it with the disturbing visuals of Jaguar’s very different ad, which reminded me of a 2004 essay by the future Pope Benedict XVI about a curious feature of Western culture: 

“The West suffers from a strange self-hatred that one can only describe as pathological; although the West tends to be laudably open to other values, it no longer tolerates its own.”

— Peter Nalosa, San Jose