The Frantic Present

One possible explanation of the reluctance of carbon activists to incorporate nuclear power in their solution is that it holds the promise of preserving the level of development in the culture, a level the activists may not wish to maintain.

                             The Frantic Present

One increasingly obvious problem in America is the loss of coherent threads in public debate. While the absence of good political leaders may be a factor, there is a growing impression that political beliefs have melted away before an incoherent progressive heat.
Henninger has an article in the WSJ predicting gradual decline of the cities and contained these good lines:

"Historically, the media and press have served an arbitrating function among competing urban forces. No longer. Through the pandemic and now the protests, much of the urban-based media have become bizarrely invested in apocalyptic story lines, picking at scab after scab and problem after problem, with not much effort at sorting substantive policy alternatives other than heading deeper into the progressive frontier.

The message being sent is that progressive governance is, at best, ambivalent about maintaining civil order. The net result the past three months has been a sense in many cities of irresolvable chaos, stress and threat.

I think many younger, often liberal families would stick it out if they thought there was anything resembling a coherent strategy to address this mess—the new health threat, the homeless, the rising crime, the filth, the increasingly weird school curriculums. But there is no strategy."