Much can be said about the current state of affairs in America. Many despair, asking, “What can we possibly do about our future,” “What, to assure that the next generation and those that follow will enjoy America’s promises?”

Some of us see that greater reliance on the state is unsustainable; less reliance, a sort of renaissance of individual initiative is our only hope. Others stubbornly cling to their entitlements, they are owed, victims of a vast conspiracy of greed. Failing to see the blight that was Soviet Marxism, they yearn for its return, confident that, “It failed only because the ‘right’ people weren’t in charge.”

Although the Chief Justice in Obamacare twistified common sense, law and the Constitution, he ultimately concluded, correctly, that the greatest conflicts over visions of the future can only be solved by us, “the people who yearn to be free . . .”

In a very pleasing read Thomas Fleming tells us a bit about the earliest days that laid the foundation upon which the greatest adventure in self-government was built.

“Progressives” pine for the good old days, the 1930s of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a decade of depression.  Perhaps we should pine for even earlier times.