Is a PC crack-up under way? Economic historian Greg Clark is the author of the deeply un-PC book A Farewell to Alms, which argues for a genetic factor in economic success. Sample quote: “The triumph of capitalism in the modern world thus may lie as much in our genes as in ideology or rationality.” I learned about Greg’s book when it first came out from naughty websites like Gene Expression and ParaPundit. Now here’s Greg Clark on the Op-Ed page of the Washington Post, warning about the rise of a vast, unemployable underclass.

What Greg Clark omits to say is of course that the huge underclass we are accumulating through mass unskilled immigration, generous welfare policies, and the birthright-citizenship interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment will all be transformed into commodity traders, cardiologists, and green-technology engineering whiz-kids, just as soon as we get the educational system right. Which we indubitably shall, any … day … now …

Meanwhile, Christopher Caldwell, long of The Weekly Standard, has written a book arguing that Enoch Powell was right. Well duh; I told NRO readers that eight years ago. Why don’t you listen? But … the Weekly Standard?

The times are getting interesting.