By Seymour W. Itzkoff
. . . Mr. Itzkoff locations lots of the blame for America's alleged highbrow decline on what he sees as an economically and intellectually elite solid of faulty liberals. they've got remoted themselves from American society, he says, by means of their paternalistic remedy of the underclass, by way of discounting the significance of conventional kin values and by means of failing to elevate adequate vivid teenagers to maintain nationwide competence. the recent York occasions booklet overview
Few doubt that the U.S. has slipped from its longstanding eminence because the world's wealthiest and most efficient state. the matter for the prior 30 years has been the prognosis of either the decline after which the therapy. actually trillions of greenbacks were expended in futile courses to stanch the hemorrhaging of our financial wealth, jobs, academic fulfillment, and cultural elan.
Itzkoff argues that we are going to by no means cease the autumn until eventually we comprehend our actual nationwide challenge. this is often the decline in our nationwide intelligence profile: fewer electorate of excessive intelligence, academic strength, and fiscal productiveness. those principles are taboo. Itzkoff, even if, insists that those are the evidence, they usually needs to be tested. during this ebook, he lays out the on hand proof for our social disintegration and indicates a rational application of coverage tasks that will start to repair us to what we have been as lately as 1955--the nice desire of the world.
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