#CancelColbert and the Return of the Anti-Liberal Left | The Nation

“A tool that was once intended to protect democracy from undemocratic movements has become a weapon used by the undemocratic against democracy.”

Call it left-wing anti-liberalism: the idea, captured by Herbert Marcuse in his 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance,” that social justice demands curbs on freedom of expression.“




In The Nation no less, I stand flummoxed...ed