When combing through the annuals of modern satire, it won’t be long before one notices that one of its regular targets has been the left-wing political activist. This has taken several different variants. There is the ‘limousine liberal’ that was so pilloried by Tom Wolfe in his essay Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s. These are the wealthy well-meaning types who advocate for allegedly wasteful, destructive politics while having doormen and private planes to buffer them from any nasty results. Then there is the scrawny, self-righteous, bookish, glasses-wearing type who bores everyone in his/her vicinity droning on about obscure thinkers and a new cause every month. Scrawny because more often than not one cause that is espoused is veganism or vegetarianism. More
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