Microlooting Moral Collapse: A Symptom of America's Spiritual Crisis

The future of liberty depends not on who controls Congress or the White House, but on whether enough Americans choose to order their lives according to transcendent moral truth rather than the shifting sands of cultural fashion;

Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--May 12, 2026

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This phenomenon, dubbed "microlooting," is presented as righteous resistance against corporate excess. Jia Tolentino and her fellow leftists argue that stealing from big corporations is justified because "the rich don't play by the rules, so why should I?" Yet as real working-class New Yorkers like Andrea Jones from public housing correctly observed, "She is hurting me, she is not helping me." The costs of such theft inevitably fall on consumers through higher prices, while the wealthy perpetrators face no consequences.

What we're witnessing is the logical endpoint of decades of moral subversion--a systematic infiltration of Marxist ideology into our most cherished institutions. This isn't random lawlessness but the predictable result of an educational system that has taught generations that all ethics are socially constructed, that property rights are instruments of oppression, and that individual conscience supersedes objective moral truth.

America’s Founding Fathers understood that liberty without virtue becomes license. John Adams wrote that "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Similarly, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in the 1830s that religion in America functioned as "the first of their political institutions"--not through government control, but by........

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