Polarized Lenses: 9/11, Charlottesville, and How Right & Wrong Replaced Right & Left
"Driving this seeming need for equivocation is the replacement of right and wrong with notions of right and left. Moral responsibility has given way to political expediency, as we carefully tailor our comments and select our outrage — not to condemn a wrong, but to make a point. Lost in this increasing politicization, and subsequent polarization, is the reality that neither truth nor virtue is subject to the whims of politics."
"It is incumbent on us to shed the polarizatio