Paul Gottfried has lately published on LRC a "pathologist's report" on his students at the college where he teaches history. What he says about them applies to a lot of the people I know here in West Texas, indeed a great many of my friends. He wishes not to put down his students, and I do not wish to put down my friends. I agree with Gottfried that the real problem is "making constitutional self-government operate in a society that is too unwieldy, politically apathetic, and self-indulgent to care about republican freedom." Or perhaps I go further and outline an … Continue reading A Dismal Era We Live In