“We are on the verge of losing the American idea,” says Tom Krannawitter, who cofounded The Vino & Veritas Society after teaching at numerous institutions, including Claremont McKenna College and Hillsdale College.
Krannawitter maintains that America’s “culture of nihilism” – out-of-control government regulation combined with increasing rates of social pathologies – is unsustainable. Our capacity for self-government is being tested.
Krannawitter believes that while private schools and think tanks have important roles to play in recovering the American way of life, a void nevertheless remains. He points to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1776: “In pivotal moments that call for decisive political action, strangers don’t make those kinds of pledges.”
