Mixed bag …

… John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse | Five Books | Five Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I don't know where Gray gets his information about American politics — probably the Guardian — but when he touches upon the subject he invariably slips into ignorance and cliché. He should take another look at the Constitution, where the idea is of a federal government at the service of the states, not the other way around. In particular, he might ponder the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." That's the entire amendment, and I for one would like to see it observed. The Tea Party is not the problem in this country. The problem is that we are burdened with the worst political class in our history.