Efforts by America’s founders to control factions in perpetuity, via both direct and spontaneous means, appear to be failing.

Some people have always occupied themselves in crying out that the end is near. This sort of thing has been going on for millennia. But lately, it seems to me, the volume of such doom-saying has risen markedly. Websites that feature apocalyptic forecasts have grown like weeds on the Web, and at least one […]