The Glamour of Ignorance

How Performative Compassion Became a Gateway to Moral Rot

Let’s begin with a confession.

I expected better from Benedict Cumberbatch.
Paul Simon too, although he’s been in a creative drift since Graceland so perhaps this is on me. Mark Ruffalo — predictable, bless him. Tilda Swinton — ethereal, eccentric, seems permanently halfway through a séance. But Stephen Fry? Sir Ian McKellen?

These are people who normally …