Phillip Longman Tries to Explain in Retrospect What the Rest of Us Warned About Years Ago

It's often said that in Washington an intellectual is someone who discovers what everyone else has known for two decades. Hence we get Phillip Longman's extremely confused piece in the Washington Monthly.

Ostensibly the piece is explaining how we got to a situation where tens of millions of baby boomers and Gen-Xers face retirement with almost nothing other than their Social Security and Medicare. However it detours to stop almost everywhere along the way, starting with the end of the baby b...