asleep for three hours and woke up feeling as dehydrated as I’ve felt in some time.

But then came the late 1960s, and over the next two decades American individualism was fully unleashed. A kind of tacit grand bargain was forged between the counterculture and the establishment, between the forever-young and the moneyed.

Dang those people over at the NYT are both stupid and ignorant of history. There was great expansion in thought and inventiveness before the 60′s when the liberals writing at the NYT were apparently semi-conscious. That was nothing but a bunch of strawmen trying to justify the damage that those idiots did to the country during the 60′s, now coming home to roost. When you look at the author’s bio, it all comes clear, he was aon goods crossing their borders with other states.

Then we moved to the New Deal era
2) The federal government now started regulating the goods that would be crossing the state lines, most notably how much of those goods could be produced. Thus the agricultural allotments were born, regulating how much wheat, corn, or soybeans could be grown on an individual farmer’s land because wheat, corn, and soybeans were used in interstate commerce.

Which gave rise to the absolutely horrible wickard vs. filburn decision in which it was determined that
3) A farmer, raising wheat on his own land to feed his own chickens, wheat that would never leave the confines of his own land and possibly, the chickens may not have left the boundaries of his own land either, was engaged