The Hobbesian Decade

That's what David Brooks calls it in a surprisingly nonpartisan column in today's NYT.

"The scrapbook of history accords but a few pages to each decade, and it is already clear that the pages devoted to this one will be grisly," he writes.

And:

"Leaving the poor in New Orleans was the moral equivalent of leaving the injured on the battlefield."

Brooks senses a big political shift in the future, but doesn't know what direction it will go in. A sensible assessment, in my opinion.

Read the whole thing here.

(By the way, Brooks opens his piece with a link to the blog The American Scene, which is a nice touch.)