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The losing of the western mind

The losing of the western mind

The crisis over the US election goes wider and deeper than America

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Melanie Phillips
Jan 11, 2021
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Goya, 1799

The Capitol riot signals an even more alarming state of affairs than is already being anxiously discussed.

It's not just that there are now two warring and irreconcilable camps, red versus blue America. It’s not just that there’s now a crisis of democratic legitimacy in the United States and the risk of fu…

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