A Separate Peace

The post title links to a surprisingly pessimistic essay by Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor of the Wall Street Journal, on the state of affairs in our nation. Noonan believes that many of our cultural and political elites have resigned themselves to making the most of their lives since they are convinced there is nothing they can do to change it. She speculates that the "the wheels are coming off the trolley and the trolley off the tracks." She makes a persuasive argument, but I don't know that I share her pessimism entirely. Maybe it's my "classic and constitutional American optimism." In any event, it is worth the read.