GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1825
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.”
(the beginning of “To Autumn,” a poem by John Keats)
HOW WE GOT HERE
“Cynical Theories” was a book by British liberals Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay published in 2020, which gives us an insight as to wh…