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Why Progressives Hate Beauty

Why Progressives Hate Beauty

The dark design behind a Cambridge museum overhaul.

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Mar 25, 2024
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When you observe renowned landscape artist John Constable’s bucolic painting “Hampstead Heath” above, what feelings does it inspire? Calm? Nostalgia? Spiritual uplift? A surge of white supremacist pride and jingoistic fervor?

For some reason – my guess is a toxic mix of colonialist guilt, multiculturalist self-loathing, and pressure from neo-Marxist dono…

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