Suzanne Fields
There's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is finished. These debaters put it in the form of a polite academic question: Is America in decline?
The debate, as such intellectual exercises always are, is restricted so far to the small but influential magazines read by the chattering class. When New Criterion magazine called for a symposium on the subject last spring, the editors were surprised to find they had tapped into the "pulse of the zeitgeist." A headline in Foreign Affairs magazine asks bluntly, "Is America Over?" Both liberals and conservatives argue over how to stop what they perceive as the national slide.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2012/01/27/creators_oped
There's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is finished. These debaters put it in the form of a polite academic question: Is America in decline?
The debate, as such intellectual exercises always are, is restricted so far to the small but influential magazines read by the chattering class. When New Criterion magazine called for a symposium on the subject last spring, the editors were surprised to find they had tapped into the "pulse of the zeitgeist." A headline in Foreign Affairs magazine asks bluntly, "Is America Over?" Both liberals and conservatives argue over how to stop what they perceive as the national slide.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2012/01/27/creators_oped
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