Chronological Snobbery

Don't toss the baby out just because the bath water is old.

(photo from the author)

“That’s an old idea. Times have changed, and that’s not the way things are anymore.” This seems to be a common refrain in our current cultural climate, especially prevalent in some ideologically-captured groups. You see it in “mainstream media” also. The New York Times recently published an article entitled, “The Constitution Is S…