Mark Levinson Responds

When I read Jeff Isaac I fell into depression. Twenty years of my life—and thousands of others’—wasted! In the depth of my despair, however, I had a revelation. Isaac was right. “A new `activist public policy,’ centered around the problem of a post-industrial economy and the decline of middle-class living standards . . . is anachronistic . . . Democrats who wish to address the serious problems confronting American liberal democracy” need to think, and act, “in a different way.” This was no time to be depressed.

There were so many people who didn’t recognize the “fallacies” on which their beliefs were based. Surely if they knew of Isaac’s argument, they would not waste...