![]() In this respect, at least, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) or, if we prefer, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), is at peace with its neighbors. They would be joined in this view of him by the representative men and women of Seattle, luminaries of the political class, education, the media, and the fabulously wealthy tech industry. The young radicals who banished the police from six blocks of downtown Seattle would regard Matthew Arnold as an ambassador from a dead civilization. The “respective extremes” drove the action, demanding fealty from the moderates. ![]() Liberals and Conservatives battled to win the war of public opinion. ![]() The politics in the years surrounding its passage heated class antipathies beyond the boiling point. ![]() The epicenter of these disturbances was the Reform Act of 1867. Fenian terrorists took what advantage they could, striking in London, Manchester, and Chester. The past few years had witnessed English rioting in Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, and Hyde Park. In 1869, England stood on the brink of anarchy. Last year saw the 150th anniversary of Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ![]()
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