“Political debate can barely occur in an atmosphere in which people assume words and terms to have distinctly different meanings. They slide, slip and decay. But in the world we are in – where anybody might edit a Wikipedia definition, and where plenty of people are learning on the hoof about complex and disputed ideas – we need to try to agree on what words mean rather than define them for ourselves.”
"Is cultural Marxism a myth?" https://unherd.com/2019/03/is-cultural-marxism-a-myth/, Unherd, March 29, 2019
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