VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. “You get the picture: our parents and grandparents left us a wonderful infrastructure, methodology, and constitutional system. So it is hard for our generation (I was born in 1953) to screw things entirely up, although we have done our best, within a mere twenty years of coming into the responsibility of governance.”

Read it all, and as a bonus Hanson fisks a self-proclaimed nuanced expert on Islam.