Great Literature is Right Wing (Newsletter #74)

People involved in the arts, literature, or other creative fields are generally politically left wing - even far left. It’s much rarer to see someone who is explicitly and openly to the right, though it does happen occasionally. But there’s another way to look at it. Our ideas of left and right in politics descend from the French Revolution. But what if we defined them differently than we currently do? My preferred definition of the right, properly understood, is discerning and aligning ones...