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In praise of cultural elitism

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

At present we have a series of ‘culture wars’ over a wide range of issues — race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege. But the one culture war we don’t have any more is over culture.

Yes, we fight about the ideological messages of literary texts, but not about matters of personal taste.

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