In this time of widespread prosperity and record consumer confidence, it's hard to swallow the notion that, as a society, we may be on the wrong track. But that's exactly the thesis that a report by the new National Commission on Civic Renewal supports. Sure, crime rates are down from the early 1990s, and school test scores have edged upward from their nadir in the mid-1980s. But a far-reaching statistical evaluation presented in the Commission's recent report "A Nation of Spectators" suggests that ...
