December 6, 2017
Experts Killed Epistemology
Well, 2017 is almost over, and what a year it has been. A retrospective could leave you happy or depressed, depending on your focus.
Donald J. Trump is president. The left has decided that its fundamentalist enemies were right about Bill Clinton's impeachment. I held a conference attacking the LGBT agenda from every imaginable angle two weeks ago, without being thrown in a gulag. Hope springs eternal. None of this would have been conceivable only eighteen months ago.
But 2017 is also ending on a note of embarrassment. Fortunately, I do not feel embarrassed and should not. Nor do most pro-Trump people allied to me. But the firestorm surrounding Roy Moore's candidacy for the Alabama Senate seat played out like a scene from an Aeschylus play. Imagine a chorus, like the matrons in Seven against Thebes or Egyptian refugees in Suppliant Women, waiting for the next herald to bring more bad news.
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