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althouse.blogspot.com - 4/8/2009
"Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism?"
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A question for Camille Paglia. An excerpt from her answer: Liberalism... has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be ...

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