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New barbarians at the gate Society may have descended into populism, but Noel Malcolm is not convinced that this book tells us why
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050313
Author:Noel Malcolm
IN 1838 THE American novelist James Fenimore Cooper published a caustic little book about the vulgarisation of public life. The new tendency, he wrote, was for interested parties ``to simulate the existence of a general feeling in favor of, or against, any particular man or measure; so great being the deference paid to publick opinion, that men actually yield their own sentiments to that which they believe to be the sentiment of the majority''.
In other words, ``public opinion'' was something that could be manufactured, and the minority that created it could then hide behind the moral ...
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