What Comes After Expressive Individualism?

For more than a decade, I’ve been writing about expressive individualism—the outlook that says the purpose of life is to look inside yourself, discover who you really are, and then express that identity to the world.Several years ago, Tim Keller told me that in New York City he was seeing the loneliness and loss of meaning produced by this way of life pushing people in a new direction. Many, he said, were beginning to look for identity, belonging, and purpose inside a group or tribe. He wondered