PETER WEHNER: America’s Civic Test. “Perhaps we find ourselves in a new political moment, in which reforms and cuts that were once unthinkable can now be advocated without danger of self-immolation. On the other hand, it may be that what Ryan will propose goes beyond what the public is willing to accept. What is reasonable to conclude, I think, is that if the public continues to resist reforms to entitlements—either because of ignorance, demagoguery, or selfishness—we will experience, sooner than we think, the kind of ‘domestic convulsion’ the founders warned about (and which Europeans are now experiencing). Demography and mathematics make that inevitable.”