Anti-racism, women’s rights, sexual liberation, world hegemony, government through technology—none of these was free. All would have to be paid for, which meant that they would be fought over. Some people, the public rightly began to suspect, would have to surrender what they considered their rights and submit to a political order designed for others’ benefit. A long-running and deceptively natural-seeming period of “both . . . and” was being replaced by the more usual human condition of “either . . . or.” That is the drama that would enter its final stage with the presidential election of
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