I saw a video of Madonna at a concert on the night after the Paris massacre. She says that she thought of cancelling, but chose to resist ISIS by doing the show. She noted that the targets were all places where people came to have "fun." She added, to much audience cheering, that we all deserve our fun and the freedom to choose how we have fun. She stood up to ISIS on the platform of fun.
Part of me was jolted a bit. Are we, like thwarted children, reduced to defending our playtime rights? Not the right to participate in our own political governance, including the governance of ourselves, the sine qua non of free government?
But then another part of me reflected, is not Madonna standing up for political freedom, too, by defying those who would choose for us?
There, I have united right and left!