Whether the drag queens on display in Paris were intentionally mocking the Last Supper or celebrating the pagan god of indulgence, one thing is certain: The spectacle was French.
The same ceremony depicted Marie Antoinette holding her severed head while singing a revolutionary anthem.
The revolution in France in 1789 was as much a rejection of the church as it was of the monarchy. As the French writer and forerunner of the revolution Denis Diderot declared: “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
The political revolution in France ended in bloody failure and a return to tyranny under Napoleon. Yet the cultural revolution survived and was on full display in Paris just a few nights ago.
Although symbolic gestures like the opening ceremony of the Olympics often garner the most attention, real-world policy initiatives…
