Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist’s management editor and writes the “Schumpeter” column. He was previously based in Washington, D.C., as the Washington bureau chief and author of the “Lexington” column. Among his books are The Right Nation, a study of conservatism in America, co-authored with John Micklethwait, and Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse. Before participating in a Zócalo/Smithsonian “What It Means to Be American” panel in London …