Dissatisfying Election? Yes, But We Have Three Good Reasons Not to Despair

Dissatisfying Election? Yes, But We Have Three Good Reasons Not to Despair

A good restaurant, Corner Kitchen, sits one block from the WORLD offices in Asheville, N.C. Barack Obama ate dinner there in April 2010, and the eatery owner reported the event on a website page he headlined, “A Night to Remember” (with apologies to Walter Lord).

Walter Lord wrote a book by that name about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. One hundred years ago was also the previous high tide for socialism in America, with Eugene Debs getting 6 percent of the vote as the candidate of the honestly named Socialist Party. Now a president who preaches class...