Modern Day Puritanism Comes to Los Angeles

Richard Miniter reports:

In the 1950s, the most puritanical place in America was somewhere in Kansas. Today it is Los Angeles.

Exhibit A: A proposal by the L.A. city council to ban smoking outdoors. Outdoors. Say on a patio or hotel balcony.

Puritans are people who want to live according to a strict moral code of their own devising and want to make you live their way too.

The authoritarian personality of our time.