After the Republic

In this most timely essay, Angelo M. Codevilla, one of the most astute observers over the last few decades of our cultural climate, lays our maladies largely at the feet of what he has elsewhere labeled “The Ruling Class,” a cadre of cultural elites whose homogeneous thought patterns and accompanying hubris have imposed on the United States a vision in striking conflict with that of our Founders. Codevilla argues that the new, revised vision has become so entrenched that no political election can undo it. It is fundamentally a cultural problem, not a political problem.