Id Control

WHAT is the relation between high policy and low morals? This is one of the central questions raised by John O’Sullivan’s incisive analysis (NR, April 21) of the way in which the academic rebels of the 1960s are turning into the New Class that rules us in the 1990s.

The answer is basically simple: low morals amount to giving in to impulse, and impulsiveness soon lands one in the arms of the bureaucracy.