‘A system at odds with the Constitution’
From our US edition
This article is in The Spectator’s February 2020 US edition. Subscribe here.How did America’s house divide for a second time in the 1960s? By a tragedy of good intentions and bad-faith actions, Christopher Caldwell argues in his new book, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. He talks to our Life & Arts editor about how we got here from there, and how activism inside and outside the courts has refounded American politics on an undemocratic basis. DG: The Age of Entitlement argues that the Civil Rights Act divided the country by establishing what you call a ‘second constitution’. CC: That is a big part of it. The book is about the evolution of American society since the Kennedy assassination.
