By Conrad Black , Special to the Sun |
July 15, 2020
The recent letter “on justice and open debate,”
published in Harper’s magazine on July 7 and signed by some 150
self-nominated intellectuals, will stand as one of the conspicuous
fatuities of this intense American election year.
The intellectuals begin with the portentous assertion that “Our
cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial.” It is then
explained that forces that have all long demanded “police reform and
greater equality and inclusion across our society,” goals whose
championship these signatories claim throughout for themselves, are now
being threatened. They have “intensified a new set of moral attitudes
and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate
and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”
Morons incapable of understanding a single sentence written by any of
the signatories could heartily agree with that proposition, and a great
many people who do not claim to be intellectual have been doing their
best to express that concern for quite some time..........To Read More.....
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