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The American Middle Ages?

By The Daily Dish
Oct 5 2008, 1:52 AM ET

Ronald Wright on contemporary American morality:

We’re not civilized. The idea that we’re more civilized than people in the Middle Ages went out the window with secret torture chambers in Baghdad . . . we are no better morally than we have been in the past, and we need to recognize that. The idea that moral progress goes with technological progress is nonsense.



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