Liberalism's Dying Credibility

Victor Davis Hanson of National Review has a masterful piece on the problems with the national liberal establishment and its waning credibility.

Money quote:
"If we wonder why CBS is in trouble, why no one trusts the universities or the U.N., or why the Democrats may soon lose the Senate, the House, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, the answer has a lot to do with arrogant hypocrisy — the idea that how one lives need have nothing to do with what one professes, that idealistic rhetoric can provide psychological cover for privilege and preference, and that rules need not apply for those self-proclaimed as smarter and nicer than the rest of us. But none of us — none — get a pass simply because we claim that we are more moral, educated, or sophisticated than most."


In their new book, The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America, Economist writers John Mickelthwait and Adrian Wooldridge show how America is a mostly conservative nation, and how that conservatism is unique in the world. It promises to be an excellet read--I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Wooldridge deliver a lecture on the book this week for the Alexis De Tocqueville Society at Patrick Henry College.