The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitarian, recognizing that genuine exce… - Roger Kimball

[M]eaningful politics must recognize other important values in human life. Indeed, politics makes no sense when it stands by itself. If the question who wields political power is not broadened to take account of what that power is to be used for - that is, what human values it will serve - then it reduces to a matter of who manages to subdue whom.

In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.

The very concept of "ethnocentrism," which is used like a sledge-hammer to disparage the West, is a Western invention.