10th November 2011
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The disturbing thing for liberals now is that there are still so many _gauchiste_ intellectuals who persist in believing that the roots of injustice might be found in liberal democracy itself, and the roots of justice in some version of unlimited, self-perpetuating power. Generously ready to concede that the second thing might sometimes go wrong, they nevertheless earn their living from reminding the first thing that freedom is an illusion.
— Clive James,
letter,
London Review of Books, March 31, 2005
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