The Origins of America’s Violent Decline

The riotous events on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 7, have rightly been identified by Michael Lind in a recent essay as another symbol of America’s slow and painful decline. Lind perceptively traces recent incidents of mob violence on both the Left and the Right to five crises that currently affect American society at a deep level: a political crisis, an identity crisis, a social crisis, a demographic crisis, and…