A COMMUNITARIAN MOMENT

This is worthy of a much longer piece, but for now I'll share this thought. With 1) the massive external challenge facing the United States due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and the 2) massive internal challenge facing our country due to the absolute decay of civic responsibility among the uber-rich and corporate America, this country is facing its greatest need for a communitarian correction since the 1930s. I can only hope that a sufficiently strong enough leader can emerge who can move beyond the cultural left's failure to recognize the first challenge and the economic right's failure to admit the latter.