November 19, 2011

SandBox Comments: Commentary Magazine/Contentions "Optimistic or Pessimistic About America: R.R. Reno"

"Mark me down as an American optimist. True, we face many challenges: the fiscal crisis of the modern welfare state, the end of American military super-hegemony, an elite culture bent on dismantling the Judeo-Christian moral consensus. Add our present economic woes, which seem intractable, and only a naif can but conclude that we face real problems posing real threats. Nonetheless, I remain convinced that America will remain a vital, attractive, and immensely powerful nation in the coming decades...."
(R.R. Reno)

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