With the rise of an ideology that claims to be anti-racist but brooks no dissent, Andrew Sullivan at the New York Intelligencer argues that increasing authoritarianism makes freedom to debate vitally important:
“In so far as this movement has made us more aware and cognizant of the darkness of the past, it is a very good thing, and overdue. But in so far as it has insisted we are defined entirely by that darkness, it has the crudeness of a kind of evangelist doctrine — with the similar penalties for waywardness.”