America’s Growing Cultural Divide and Its Implications

As consistently shown in study after study, the United States of America is the richest, happiest, most powerful, and most innovative large country in the world. Obviously, we’ve been blessed with a unique set of structural advantages related to geography, geology, and climate. But beyond that, our nation was uniquely defined from its beginnings through the first half of the 20th century by a “great American middle-class culture.” It can be argued that it was that culture, and the economic system it supported, that enabled the United States to overcome a string of ever.....