A Point of View

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The Age of Infantilism

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Howard Jacobson reflects on the 'incorrigible unseriousness' of our age.

'While self-righteousness loosens the tongues of fools,' writes Howard Jacobson, 'self-censorship ties the tongues of the wise.’

Howard argues that it's not autocracy that has bedevilled us in the past twelve months, it is levity.  

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