Decline and Fall

For all her prescience, it seems likely that Tuchman, who died in 1989, would have been stunned by the Brobdingnagian dimensions of American folly during the last six years. Just over twenty years after she wrote about the Constitution’s miraculous endurance, it’s hard to figure out how much of the democratic republic created by our founders still exists, and how long what’s left will last. The country (along with the world) is in terrible trouble, though the extent of that trouble is both so sprawling and multifaceted that it’s hard to get a hold on.
Salon