New Puritans, Unfiltered

To understand how far to the puritanical left America has traveled since the Manhattan of 1960 depicted in AMC’s Mad Man, it’s worth revisiting this quote by David Frum:

They lit rockets in their backyards on the Fourth of July. They bought their steak marbled with fat. They smoked. They bought cars without seatbelts. They gave boys .22-caliber rifles for their eleventh birthdays. How they would gape and stare at a contemporary playground, with its rubber matting underneath the swings, safety belts on the teetertotters, and three-year-olds strapped into crash helmets before they can mount their tricycles. How they would snicker at grown men gird