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Lord Acton is famous for his proclamation that “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Personally, I prefer “absolutely power corrupts” or just “power corrupts absolutely.” Either captures the reality that power, no matter how small, is always abused and always grows. Power is an aphrodisiac but one that never satisfies.

A recent dust-up over conservatism’s goals and methods was triggered by public libraries promoting drag queens to kids , which, if this Vice report is accurate , is not very dissimilar to the sexualization of kids in Afghanistan , where young boys are dressed as women to dance and are sexually abused by pedophiles.