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Ideology and reality are often in a shaky relationship. Our politics reveal the division most starkly, with the preoccupations of idealists diverging further and further from the country’s most pedestrian and pressing issues. Embellished stories have a click appeal—“The schools are transing your children!”; “You can’t walk the streets of New York without being accosted!”; “The immigrants are eating the cats!”—that society’s daily doldrums do not.
Megan Dent is a senior fellow at the Pharos Foundation in Oxford, U.K. She covers politics, culture, and religion and can be found in The Telegraph, The Critic and the Church Times.
