The very title expresses anti-fascist aggression. But the ambition is negative and open, seeking meaning and “realism,” not truth. Young people need to be liberated from restrictive, punitive ideas about sex, the researchers argue, as well as overwrought patriotism and ready appeals to authority. They call for a new consensus, the open society consensus, which will allow the next generation to live more naturally, more humanly, and more peacefully, freeing the West from its long history of hate, oppression, and war. It was new gospel, and it won many believers.
