Victor Davis Hanson has a way of cutting to the heart of the matter

And what have we learned in the last five years from its boutique socialism, utopian pacifism, moral equivalence, and cultural relativism? That it was logical that Europe most readily would abandon the artist and give up the renegade in fear of religious extremists.

from - VDH's Private Papers::Traitors to the Enlightenment by way of Chronicles of Tobermory