From a reader:
That was quite a fine piece of popular moral theologizing hidden in your
“Sore Loser Party” column today, Jonah. If morality does not have a
transcendent foundation, then it is all about power — or expedience. A
rampantly immoral society is a poorly functioning one. As Diane Keaton told
Woody Allen, “If everyone went to the same restaurant on the same night and
ordered blintzes, there’d be chaos.”