Dark Horses

Alienation” was a favorite buzz word of the 1960s—usually applied to college students upset about the draft, the dean, or an inadequate supply of drugs.

The term might be aptly used to describe the condition of the average workaday American as he confronts a host of renegade institutions. There is plentiful evidence that bodies supposedly representing the views and interests of this American—churches, professional groups, political parties, unions, governments—do nothing of the sort. In case after case, these institutions act in ways demonstrably counter to the wishes of their constituents.

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M. Stanton Evans

Alienation” was a favorite buzz word of the 1960s—usually applied to college students upset about the draft, the dean, or an inadequate supply of drugs.

The term might be aptly used to describe the condition of the average workaday American as he confronts a host of renegade institutions. There is plentiful evidence that bodies supposedly representing the views and interests of this American—churches, professional groups, political parties, unions, governments—do nothing of the sort. In case after case, these institutions act in ways demonstrably counter to the wishes of their constituents.