Charles Murray proposes four original solutions in response to the problems posed by the growing class divide among whites in America, as detailed in his bestselling book, "Coming Apart".

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.

AEI Election Watch 2012: American Enterprise Institute experts Karlyn Bowman and Henry Olsen discuss the results of contests in Alabama and Mississippi and preview key next battles – Puerto Rico and Illinois – in the 2012 GOP presidential contest.

The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves. That said, four steps might weaken the isolation of, at least, the children of the new upper class.

The ideal of an "American way of life" is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated.

Although no country has a perfect record, a new volume from AEI Press shows that strengthening and expanding domestic security policies has not undermined the United States and Europe's shared commitment to democracy and liberty.

Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be divided into three parts: liquidating trusts, private mortgage businesses, and a government agency inside the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...