Extremists and the Pleasures of Destruction

Reading the biography of a French anarchist gets the good doctor thinking about our own turbulent times in his The Epoch Times column.

It goes without saying that the justice with which the iconoclasts and vandals are obsessed is always of a very peculiar sort (it continues to surprise me how little protest there is against the very expression racial justice, than which few expressions could be more racist); but at any rate they are always judging the past, as they judge the present, against an impossible standard of perfection—perfection, that is, according to their own conception of that the world ought to be.

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