Obama hastens—and embodies—American decline

“Culture changes policy; policy changes culture; and so the wheel of history turns,” writes Myron Magnet in City Journal. “This is one of those moments when you can see it move. America’s traditional culture of self-reliant striving, of taming the wilderness, of limiting government from interfering with our own pursuit of happiness as we individually define it threatens to give way to a belief that our past and its values, from the heroic Founding onward, is a record of folly, vice, and misery, just as the British came to feel shame at their magnificent history.” For the rest of the essay, click here.