But progressives have also faltered here, notably in their entrenched hostility to female emancipation (women were long viewed by republicans as reactionary agents of Catholicism, and were only granted the vote in 1944).
On the other hand, it brands the opposition as counter-revolutionaries, reactionaries, agents of anarchy and disorder and relics of the former Mubarak regime.
Political leaders on the right, like Imran Khan — who has been sympathetic to the Taliban and has sought the advice of retired intelligence agents, reactionary mullahs, and others of the extreme right — have also been sidelined by Malala's shooting.
You could read the whole film as a reactionary plea for less transparency for agents toiling so far below the surface of civil society, on our behalf, that we should not insult them with petty requests that they remain accountable.
Major examples of their style of close reading can be found in R.P. Blackmur's The Double Agent (1935), Allen Tate's Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas (1936), John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body (1938), Yvor Winters's Maule's Curse (1938), and Cleanth Brooks's The Well Wrought Urn (1947).
You could read the whole film as a reactionary plea for less transparency — for agents toiling so far below the surface of civil society, on our behalf, that we should not insult them with petty requests that they remain accountable.
Plenty of nationalists still think that "code-switching" sounds traitorous, a bit like being a double agent, hence the existence of reactionary lobbies such as the "English-only movement" in the US and its equivalents for Hindi in India.
Popular flawed heroes such as Dexter, in whom the psychopathic agent of destruction is recast in a cynical and reactionary way (as the good guy who aims to serve and protect the decent suburbanites), would not have emerged without Bateman.
Roger Allam plays a blustering, reactionary TV commentator who naturally turns out to be a former black-uniformed agent of the state.
"There are quite a few reactionary-minded people in this country who are already declaring me a foreign agent — they think that I am working for someone," he said.
