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Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here.
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Social media has sped time up. In the world of Twitter, outrage is instantaneous, and deliberation impossible.
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Artists should be nervous when advocacy groups gain influence over the creative process: Their focus is never art. It’s always their own narrow agenda.
Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
In today’s topsy-turvy world, virtue signaling trumps being virtuous.
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.