When the Berlin Wall came down
and the Soviet Union fell apart, and Eastern Europe went through the tumult of revolution and re-ordering, it seemed as if the world was on the verge of a massive rebalancing, and I began to wonder if the events predicted in my college days, by those who were sure the end of the American Experiment was at hand, had finally arrived: the fall of the Establishment, of government as we knew it, of the American Dream as it had been dreamed for decades. I concluded then that while America is due for... Sign in to see full entry.