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A Nation of Children

David Brooks had the last must-read column of 2009.  In, "The God That Fails" he wrote:During the middle third of the 20th century, Americans had impressive faith in their own institutions. It was not because these institutions always worked well. The Congress and the Federal Reserve exacerbated the Great Depression. The military made horrific mistakes during World War II, which led to American planes bombing American troops and American torpedoes sinking ships with American prisoners of war.But there was a realistic sense that human institutions are necessarily flawed. History is not knowable or controllable. People should be grateful for whatever assistance that government can provide and had better do what they can to be responsible for their own fates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 01, 2010 (boomark / email).