Thought Police on Patrol
11th April 2014
Charles Krauthammer really doesn’t love Big Brother.
Two months ago, a petition bearing more than 110,000 signatures was delivered to The Post, demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming. The petition arrived the day before publication of my column, which consisted of precisely that heresy.
The column ran as usual. But I was gratified by the show of intolerance because it perfectly illustrated my argument that the left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.
April 11th, 2014 at 12:17
left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation
Having never done this before in the US or anywhere else. [Gales of riotous laughter] The Left has been shouting down speakers on US campuses for fifty years.