Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. (Christopher Lasch)

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Christopher Lasch

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