Will: Ryan Is Correct

Reacting to the criticism that followed Rep. Paul Ryan's statement that a broken culture was at the root of inner city chaos and disfunction, Washington Post columnist George Will writes to defend Ryan and lambaste his critics.

Nicholas Eberstadt, an economist and demographer, notes that “labor force participation ratios for men in the prime of life are demonstrably lower in America than in Europe” and “a large part of the jobs problem for American men today is that of not wanting one.” Surely the fact that means-tested entitlement dependency has been destigmatized has something to do with what Eberstadt terms the “unprecedented exit from gainful work by adult men.”

"Something to do...?" More like everything to do with that exit.