Joel Kotkin

A quote from this senior fellow at the new America Foundation: "As Tocqueville noted over 170 years ago. America has flourished not because of geniuses in Washington but due to its constitution, fertile land mass, egalitarianism, entrepeneurship, unique spiritual vitality and attachment to local community and family. This combination of factors has always made us different from other countries, and in this deeply cynical and secular age, now more so than ever before."