Right but Repulsive or Wrong but Wromantic?
Dreamers express our feelings but then betray us all
Liberty Leading the People; Eugene Delacroix, 1830
One of the many paradoxes about our frightening culture wars is that western society, which constantly congratulates itself on being the acme of rationality and freedom, has in fact abandoned reason for emotion and freedom for coercion.
We can see this on display all around us. It’s in the baleful grip of…
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