Feeling Listless

In last week´s Takimag column, our favorite doctor ruminates on the consequences of yet another ridiculously politically correct Guardian headline, this time related to the prestigious Booker Prize.

To celebrate the preponderance of one demographic group or another in some area of achievement is a mark of identitarian politics, the kind of politics that is destructive and enfeebling. I would rather say that the judges were to be congratulated on choosing the six best books—if they succeeded in doing so—than that their choice was to be celebrated.

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