Modernity is the process of turning crunchy systems into soggy ones. ~Caleb Stegall, Crunchy Cons

This comes from an interesting post on an old definition of crunchiness from The Economist. This is amusing for me, as my first post on Rod’s book included my recollection of first encountering the word crunchy in a political context in an Economist article. In that case, its application was not necessarily complimentary (it was a sort of backhanded way of describing Viktor Orban, Hungary’s then prime minister from the center-right), but the Economist‘s usage might be even more meaningful to a number of conservatives who are still wary of the granola.