For Joel Kotkin, class in America can no longer be understood in terms of left and right. Instead, it is marked by the rise of an academic and media elite and an expansive government bureaucracy. Speaking to Carl Cannon of Real Clear Politics, Kotkin warns of the coming of a new feudalism.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


