In his book, Shattered Consensus, James Piereson says the postwar political order is unraveling.  We’re arriving at a rare historic moment.  The century-old liberal era is about to breathe its last breaths. If the liberal era is about to die, what replaces it?  Don’t assume that liberty and founding principles fill the void, welcomed as antidotes to decades of statist imposition, rot, and rust; to the corrosive effects of leftist cultural subversion.  There are no automatics in human affairs. There are only a few comparable junctures in American history, per Piereson. The previous major eras in American history identified by Piereson began with the Jefferson-Jackson era (1800-60).  It foundered and fell apart over the issue of “slavery and territorial issues” in the 1850s.  The “capitalist-industrial” era ran from post-Civil War to 1930, when the Great Depression occurred.  And then the postwar (WWII)...(Read Full Article)