Analyzing the culture

Nick Van Cleve writes,

As those serious about influencing the nation on both sides of the aisle understand, winning in politics first requires winning the culture.

How well do you understand the culture? Van Cleve points to James Burke as a man who incisively analyzed the culture, and in 1790 wrote a book that caused world wide interest. Van Cleve believes that

Moral degradation, government bureaucracy, and the willful destruction of established social institutions like marriage would all likely stand out in a Burkian analysis of today’s American culture.

The trick is to know that which ought to be changed, and that which ought not.