MARK STEYN: This is your grandparents’ revolution. “Beneath the allegedly young idealism are very cobwebbed assumptions about societal permanence. The agitators for ‘American Autumn’ think that such demands are reasonable for no other reason than that they happen to have been born in America, and expectations that no other society in human history has ever expected are just part of their birthright. But a society can live on the accumulated capital of a glorious inheritance only for so long. And, in that sense, this bloodless, insipid revolution is just a somewhat smellier front for the sclerotic status quo. . . . It would be heartening if more presidential candidates understood the urgency. But there is a strange lack of boldness in most of their proposals. They, too, seem victims of that 1950 moment, and assumptions of its permanence.”

UPDATE: Mike Stopa: Passion, but no point. Here’s a pic of what he’s talking about.

ANOTHER UPDATE: This doesn’t sound good.