Today’s Mark of Sophistication

“These days,” writes R. R. Reno in today’s “On the Square” article, Culture Matters More Than Politics , “the ability to talk about politics in a knowing way is treated as a mark of sophistication, so much so, I think, that we’ve come tacitly to regard political analysis as the rightful domain of intelligence.”  The result is a reversal of our attention to what really matters most.