There is no question, that, taken as a whole, our society is getting dumber. Recent IQ measurements support that assertion. It is a remarkably damning indictment of our public school system and current culture that the more years of schooling one has and the more information we have access to, the less actual knowledge and wisdom one tends to possess. To paraphrase something Mark Steyn once observed, eighth grade Americans built the most successful country the world has ever known, and eighteenth grade Americans may well destroy it. The Founders were worried about “The tyranny of the majority.” Yet today...