P.J. O’ROURKE: Of Thee I Sing: Baby Boomers Go Bust. “America once valued the high-skilled. Now we value the high-minded. We used to admire bold ideas. Now we admire benign idealism. This doesn’t make us good, it makes us wrong. The bold can be achieved. Of the ideal, there is none in this life. We’ve given up what we think we can make for what we think can make us happy. We deplore all the effects of technology on the earth and the climate so that—while living our lives completely indoors, protected from dirt and weather—we can feel better about ourselves. We’ve gone from hopeful thinking to wishful thinking.” Of which the current Administration is the embodiment.