Years ago, in a debate at a midwestern university, I suggested to an angry law professor that there was a profound asymmetry between our desired politics.
If I ruled the world, she would be what she was: a loud but ignorable minor law professor. If she ruled the world… /1
If I ruled the world, she would be what she was: a loud but ignorable minor law professor. If she ruled the world… /1
I would be at least banned from teaching and probably in jail for having illegal views. She took great offense, declaring that I had defamed not just her but all the left-leaning audience members.
The thing is, I hadn't. It was true then, and it's true now /2
The thing is, I hadn't. It was true then, and it's true now /2
Perhaps, probably, there are conservatives who want leftists banned. But I have never been one of them—and the strangeness of our puritanical moment is the sheer number of voices I hear proclaiming that difference of opinion or even silence is inherently evil. /3
Belief in the democratically ideal of a wild swirl of voices is lower than I have ever seen it before. /4
(The original tweet was from @PalmerReport, via @PatrickDeneen)
(The original tweet was from @PalmerReport, via @PatrickDeneen)
