Sucking in the Seventies

"The most intriguing handicap, though, is Frum's own conflicted feeling about how good the good old days really were. At the end of How We Got Here, Frum recites the neocon catechism that the main trouble with the 1960s/1970s was that ungrateful punks didn't appreciate the virtues of mid-century social order. But then he puts some distance between himself and the Commentary crowd by questioning whether that mid-century social order was all that wonderful to begin with."

From the Slate archives again, Timothy Noah reviews David Frum's How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better or Worse.