Germany's state theaters churn out hundreds of new opera productions a year, and the notion of a Robert Mapplethorpe fiasco like the one that crippled the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States years ago, when the right wing used provocative photographs as a cudgel against the left, is inconceivable here.
If ideology on the right is not going anywhere, ideology on the left is also here to stay -- and sometimes pay.
Left-wing talk radio is here.
"There's this terrible terrible thing going on at the moment with the BBC is sitting there under assault from the rightwing media and the rightwing media are saying 'the BBC is to the left, because we say the centre is here'.
Reid offers an explanation for why Churchill loathed left-wing intellectuals educated at what is here called Winchester University — actually Winchester College, and no university: rather, it's an elite private boarding school rivaling Eton and roughly similar to Groton in the United States.
Nominally stationed on the right of a strikerless attacking trident, Onomah frequently drifted to the left and it was here that he picked up the ball and drove forward.
"The left is making a big mistake here.
Here, Aya (left) is pictured helping her older sister, Houdoud, prepare the evening meal during the recent Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.
And here, for the left, is the frustrating subtext to all this.
"You know that there's people that are coming home from the Hamptons," Mr. Smits said, "and the guy's probably going, 'And here to your left is the Delacorte Theater,' like it's the Grand Canyon".
