Beyond Transgression by Mark Steyn on National Review Online

Beyond Transgression by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
Earlier bad boys — Lord Byron, say — were obliged to operate as “transgressive” artists within a broader moral order. Now we are told that a man such as Polanski cannot be subject to anything so footling as morality: He cannot “transgress” it because, by definition, he transcends it. Yet all truly great art is made in the tension between freedom and constraint. In demanding that an artist be placed above the laws of man, Harvey Weinstein & Co. are also putting him beyond the possibility of art.
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