Drawing from Boccaccio's Decameron, I posted some thoughts on how the bubonic plague transformed European culture to reflect on how our current pandemic might transform our way of life. Despite their political differences, left and right share threads of "liberalism": relativism and laissez-faire. The right wing has adopted small government and "liberty" as ends in themselves.  Hence, rightists believe that in a marketplace of ideas, as in a marketplace of goods, the best will naturally win out. The left wing has adopted a statist version of the same thing, believing that with open borders and no preferentiality in sexual, social, artistic, or spiritual mores, each person will find happiness and reach his fullest potential.  As the right wing abhors big government, so the left wing abhors borders and religious dogmas, even as leftists tend to rely on powerful entities (most often the government) to provide each individual with his...(Read Full Article)