culture wars
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The point has been made very often by now, but this is a particularly good and compact instance, from the unsigned "Notes & Comments" column in the May issue of The New Criterion: Épater la bourgeois: shocking the middle class has been a cherished goal of the avant garde since the birth of the movement in the
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Common Courtesy and the Christmas Wars I hope it’s not just my subjective impression that some of the intensity faded from the struggle over public expression of Christmas this year. Over the past few years it had come to be, in some circles, a major breach of etiquette to wish someone “Merry Christmas.” I noticed
Light On Dark Water 