Sunday afternoon roundup

Nicholas Kristof laments the decline of the family farm.

Frank Rich answers the question in my previous post, as follows:

...the biggest contributor to this resurgence of radicalism remains panic in some precincts about a new era of cultural and demographic change. As the sociologist Daniel Bell put it, “What the right as a whole fears is the erosion of its own social position, the collapse of its power, the increasing incomprehensibility of a world — now overwhelmingly technical and complex — that has changed so drastically within a lifetime.”

Oh, I resubscribed to the Post. [Shrug.] I'll let you know if I find anything good.