Glavin: In the Shepherd affair, the left has sided with the bosses

“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest,” the dangerously courageous and brilliant revolutionary anarchist Emma Goldman wrote in her early 1930s memoir, Living My Life, and it was because of her “reckless abandon” on the dance floor, among other things, that she was routinely belittled and upbraided by the more dreary and humourless among her comrades.
Despite the 1960s’ feminist slogans, Goldman never said, “If I can’t dance, I don&rsqu