by Joan Walsh, Salon.com
Murray’s book is intended to highlight a values gap. He identifies what he calls the “founding virtues” of America – industriousness, religious practice, honesty and marriage – and finds the new white lower class lacking in all four. Meanwhile, at the very top of society, he says, adherence to those virtues persists, and it’s working very well.
Obviously, I think this is pretty laughable and Walsh repeatedly points out the numerous and ginormous holes in his argument(s). I’d read the book in its entirety but there are too many great books out there to read instead of reading one that would only be a lengthy critical thinking and fallacy-finding exercise.
