Features November 2004
Saintly institutions? Notes on a common prejudice
On some “saintly” and “demonized” institutions and individuals.
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by intellectuals who have an “idea.”
—David Hare, Stuff Happens
Saints should always be judged guilty until proven innocent, though the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.
—George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”
Yet sit and see, Minding true things by what their mock’ries...
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