In Defense of Beauty

Whenever somebody like St. Teresa is in the news, people start demanding that the poor people of the world be deprived of the chance to see beauty for free. They call this “social justice” but what it really is is “virtue signalling”. Dorothy Day had tart words to such cheap progressivism that says, like Judas, “Why were these things not sold and the money given to the poor?”

I discuss it here.