Left and Right Still Define (and Confuse) the Political Landscape

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Much has changed since 1789, when the seating arrangements in the French National Assembly (royalists on the right side of the president, and the more radical revolutionaries on the left) provided politics with a handy way of telling where people stand. The “cut-and-dried categories” that the French invented have kept their appeal, but problematically so. 

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