
California’s Bonfire of Vanities
As the showcase of US liberalism lies in ashes, progressivism is burning itself out.
As the showcase of US liberalism lies in ashes, progressivism is burning itself out.
Today’s iconoclasts seek little more than a photograph in the newspaper, if not a prison sentence—think of the media-ready antics of Just Stop Oil, throwing soup on Van Gogh or spraying Stonehenge with orange paint. Any attention they might lend to their cause is smothered in a self-serving narcissistic love of the image of themselves performing destruction.