• The New Class: Profiting From Decline

    by  • February 3, 2012 • Conservative Bloggers News Feed, General • 1 Comment

    (John Hinderaker) I haven’t yet read Charles Murray’s Coming Apart , but fellow Minnesotan Eric Falkenstein has. The self-described son of Beatnik parents, he pens not so much a review as an appreciation, and couples it with a nice skewering of the New Class: Murray argues the well-off should set a better example by not apologizing for their squareness, but rather, by advocating their lifestyle and scorning those who fail to live up to it—we need more of what is usually called ‘blaming the victim’. Murray singles out the modern welfare state as the key instigator for our moral squalor, but I rather think our lack of faith in bourgeois values in general was the first mover here. Surely enlarging the dole increases the size of its…

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