The persistence and spread of belief in the Vegetable Lamb was ultimately a harmless historical curiosity. But today’s Vegetable Lambs have become a major political force not only in the US but also in the UK and in Europe.15 Nearly a billion people live in the United States and the European Union (EU), and billions more are affected by the military, trade, and immigration policies of those nations. Whatever one thinks about the merits of Trump’s election, or of the UK’s exit from the EU (“Brexit”), it is profoundly troubling to think that these momentous political events were underwritten by
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