From the Middle East to climate change, every issue is now a battle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’.
We no longer live in an age of moral relativism, but one of moral absolutism.
That’s one observation made by Canadian academic Eric Kaufmann in his latest book, Taboo, published this year. It’s an arresting inversion of a long-held view. Everyone today does indeed seem to know what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’.
