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BRINK LINDSEY’s reading of recent American history is by no means eccentric.

The story that he recounts will be familiar to anyone who has read David Frum’s book on the 1970s, or Francis Fukuyama’s The Great Disruption, or any of David Brooks’s writings on Bobos.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

BRINK LINDSEY’s reading of recent American history is by no means eccentric.

The story that he recounts will be familiar to anyone who has read David Frum’s book on the 1970s, or Francis Fukuyama’s The Great Disruption, or any of David Brooks’s writings on Bobos.