Friar Barnardine: Thou has committed—

Barabas: Fornication: but that was in another Barabas: Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.

—Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

The most melancholy saying of the late Irving Kristol, though probably as true as anything else he said, was that (as of the 1990s anyway) the culture war was over and we—meaning conservatives—had lost it. Though not enough to prove him wrong, it was something of an unction to the soul for that still-rankling loss that so few voices outside Hollywood, New York, and the international film fraternity were raised on behalf of Mr. Roman Polanski when he was arrested and ...