Reihan at the American Scene has a follow-up on my post yesterday on Amy Wax’s excellent op-ed about family structure and social policy. He provides some interesting observations, but I’ll concentrate on the negative. I can’t shake the feeling that to some extent he’s offering mere window dressing for the more typical and reflexive liberal response to failures of liberal social meddling: More meddling! I’m not dismissing entirely the role for social policy making, but it does bug me that we almost never hear a liberal say that a policy failure proves that we shouldn’t have a policy in that area. It’s always proof that we need a smarter and more effective policy. Sure, we’ve dug ourselves into a hole, but if we dig with better shovels and allocate labor more efficiently…