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The Purity Spiral Turns, as Courage Goes Missing

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The Purity Spiral Turns, as Courage Goes Missing
A vandalized statue of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote,” in San Francisco on June 20, 2020. Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP
Roger Kimball
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The journalist Gavin Haynes has a great phrase for a familiar and disturbing phenomenon: the purity spiral.

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Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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