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Stuck in Defence

Stuck in Defence

If the left wants the politics it has to come up with some palatable policies, if the right wants to culture it has to produce some cultural output.

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Dara Macdonald
Jul 29, 2021
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David Frum once said his occasional smart thing in a podcast with Sam Harris. It was something along the lines of ‘the left always wanted the politics but got the culture, and the right always wanted culture but got politics’.

This is an astute observation, and at least in Australia, this is looking like entrenched positions. Both Left and right are stuc…

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