Build Then, Always, by Anthony Esolen

I’m writing on November 9, one day after the “most significant election in American history,” as some people were saying, and I don’t dispute it, except I note that every big election since 1992 has been the “most significant in American history,” and we have meanwhile slid and slumped farther into moral confusion and madness.

In the days of Bill Clinton, that fatherless non-entity with a taste for young women and, somewhere in his muddled soul, for America, it was a scandal that he took advantage of a young female aide as he did, though one journalist said, with almost eager physical description, that she’d have performed oral sex on him just to keep abortion “legal and safe.”

In our days, fourth-graders are given instructions on the same subject, and the only scandal is that some people think that’s still a little young for that. …