The Everlasting WASPs

Reading Peter Schrag's “The Decline of the Wasp”

Fitting for the slow approach of fall weather, there’s a nip of WASP nostalgia in the air. Business Insider reports that Gen Z and Millenials are reviving “Old Money” aesthetics in clothes and home decor. A few years ago, Ross Douthat wrote a “Why We Miss the WASPs” column in The New York Times, basically arguing that the old American ruling class wasn’…