Noonan: "America's Crisis of Character"

It has been a busy week for me, so, yes, here's a link to a column rather than a long reflection on virtue and character.  Peggy's Noonan's opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal, "America's Crisis of Character," does not offer much in the way of prescriptions, but she is very astute at diagnosing -- assuming she is right -- a very large problem.

I've long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that it's also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing we call our culture.

Now I'd go a step beyond that. I think more and more people are worried about the American character—who we are and what kind of adults we are raising.

Every story that has broken through the past few weeks has been about who we are as a people. And they are all disturbing.

Diagnosis may be the first step of treatment.  For now, it will have to do.