Sublime

Isaiah Berlin: “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

The Overton window can shift. A classic strategy for achieving this is to proclaim ideas so shocking and subversive that anything less radical suddenly sounds sensible.

This is why Coulter and VDARE can be considered the furthest edge of the Overton Window. Past that are those who are far more heretical than Coulter,

Writing from his hiding place in the basement of a U.S. embassy building in Beijing, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, one of China’s preeminent dissidents, baldly stated that the multiplicity of Tiananmen literature heralded “the failure of the ‘Technique of Forgetting History,’ which has been an important device of rule by the Chinese Communists.” Facts

Alexis de Tocqueville

In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed

At the heart of Exterminate All the Brutes is the claim that Hitler—the twentieth century’s most despised villain, and rightly so—was not the civilized, democratic West’s evil “other,” but its shadow, its doppelganger. This draws on Lindqvist’s argument that the exterminatory mindset lies at “the core of European thought … summing up the history of

The destruction of a shared reality does more damage than economic decline or impeachable acts.