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The Revival Of The Right Is As Extraordinary As It Would Be If The Public Had Demanded Dozens Of New Nuclear Plants In The Days After The Three Mile Island Disaster; If We Had Reacted To Watergate By Making Richard Nixon A National Hero.

Conservatism Is Not A Doctrine Of Contentment. Not A Doctrine For The Satisfied And The Smug. It's A Politics That's At War With The World.

We Have Become A Society That Can't Self-correct, That Can't Address Its Obvious Problems, That Can't Pull Out Of Its Nosedive. And So To Our List Of Disasters Let Us Add This Fourth Entry: We Have Entered An Age Of Folly That - For All Our Facebooking And The Twittling Tweedle-dee-tweets Of The Twitterati - We Can't Wake Up From.

What Becomes Fascinating Is The Way The Culture Industry Doesn't Deny It And Doesn't Try To Mitigate It, But Tries To Sell Its Products As A Way Of Liberating Oneself.

Every City Is Either Vibrant These Days Or Is Working On A Plan To Attain Vibrancy Soon. The Reason Is Simple: A City Isn't Successful - Isn't Even A City, Really - Unless It Can Lay Claim To Being 'vibrant.'