Brad Thompson’s brilliant and amusing polemic, “The Rise and Fall of the Pajama-Boy Nietzscheans,” asks, in essence, what is to be done about kids today? In particular, what ought we to do about the rise of an anti-founding Right?
The Claremont Institute is known for its robust defenses of the American Founding. Some of the responses to Thompson already make that clear. But Thompson complains that Michael Anton, in his review of Bronze Age Pervert’s book Bronze Age Mindset, spends too much time explaining what BAP says, and not enough time criticizing it. Thompson, if I read him right, goes so far as to imply that Anton secretly sympathizes with BAP. Similarly, he faults Claremont for allowing BAP to publish a response to Anton at The American Mind.
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