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He\u2019s right, of course. \u201cRight side of History\u201d rhetoric is basically just a way of shouting down one\u2019s opponents by declaring that the very issue in dispute has already been settled in one\u2019s favor in The Future[TM]. The future is not what it used to be. It reminds me of Chesterton\u2019s remark that the very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-42758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bourgeois-smugness"],"yoast_head":"\n
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