#THEMTOO: No 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Panel Says Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal. “The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature said on Friday that it would take the extraordinary step of not naming a laureate this year — not because of a shortage of deserving writers, but because of the infighting and public outrage that have engulfed the group over a sexual abuse scandal.”

Our political and cultural betters are anything but.