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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: In 1976, writer/director John Carroll was asked to create a programme for the Edinburgh Festival to celebrate Americas Bicentennial.

We might consider liberalism the Great Eater which has managed to force nearly everything into itself, to absorb most features of modern life under its mantle. That which cannot be packaged, sold or neutered in the face of the liberal schema must be resisted: only religious foundationalism and ethnic nationalism have remained impervious to such an all-consuming appetite, so it is no wonder they are the enemy and targets

Competitive eating has found a particular foothold in the American zeitgeist — even becoming entwined with ideals like patriotism.