A friend on FB posted something from Amy Wax, a professor at Penn Law School. It’s the usual self pity of the Conservative who finds people object to her noxious opinions.

Without diving deeper into the whole controversy, which I spent an hour or more doing myself, her basic idea was that life was better in the 1950s, and it’s all fucked up since, and if we’d only return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, Everything Would Be Better.

Leaving aside that the woman herself seems to be quite a piece of work, my question is this: If the 1950s were so damn great, why did the children of the 1950s so roundly reject the “Bourgeois Culture”?