for Harper’s Magazine.The letter, signed by people including Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky, Bari Weiss and Margaret Atwood, read: ‘The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.
While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. ‘We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters.
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