Clear writing comes from clarity of thought. If you’re a writer you’ve likely heard the cliche is “clear writing equals clear thinking.”
That is a baseline. A start.
Great writers make concepts clear to their audience. That they do getting clear on definitions and getting the audience on their playing field. In Coming Apart, Murray’s thesis is that the end of the American experiment is nigh. A bold claim. And Murray goes on to say that a class divergence pushes us towards the end of the American experiment. Another weighty claim.
