Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

’A world in which no fact matters, no taste matters, there is no standard . . . you can pretend to be something by having read three irrelevant books and seen five irrelevant movies.’ — Newt Gingrich

Mass Aristocracy, Post-Democracy

SATURDAY

On the way back to Dublin in driving rain, nursing a rising flu, I notice an unusual soft, scraping sound from the windscreen wipers, like a chewing gum paper stuck to your sneaker. At first, I think something has stuck to the windshield, but I can see nothing corresponding. After a mile or so without respite, wit…