Catherine Rampell: America's own Cultural Revolution

Washington • Last month in Shanghai, Chinese venture capitalist Eric X. Li made a provocative suggestion.The United States, he said, was going through its own “Cultural Revolution.”For those unfamiliar, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a traumatic period of political upheaval, ostensibly intended to cleanse the People’s Republic of impure and bourgeois elements.Universities were shuttered. Public officials were purged. Youth paramilitary groups, known