Toby Young on the Bari Weiss resignation from the New York Times, the Harper's Letter, its signatories and blow-back to the letter. Here.
Critics of the Harper's letter deploy a straw man: that the signatories are just trying to protect their own privileges. But that's not what they said. They were talking specifically about less privileged voices being silenced.
Still, as others have noted, the Harper's signatories seem to want to widen the Overton window just enough to include a slightly wider circle of the Left. Not necessarily widely enough to include conservatives. Note, for example, their ritualistic swipe at Trump and the right.
Meanwhile Kevin Myers slams J.K. Rowling, a signatory, for having cancelled him in 2017, unfairly as it seems. Here.
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Bill Buckley used to observe that liberals always say they are in favor of entertaining opinions opposed to their own but are then surprised to discover that there are opinions opposed to their own. Here.
