Name-Calling and the Fall of the West

Name-Calling and the Fall of the West

The cultural commentator Konstantin Kisin said recently in a podcast that the left had destroyed language. For instance, the lazy use of the words “nazi” and “fascist” to condemn someone who holds differing views has only succeeded in draining those words of meaning. If everyone is a fascist then no one is; and what then do we call an actual fascist? But the distortion of language by the left goes far deeper than this and is, paradoxically, far …