The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

