"We seem unable to live with the high libertarian version of free speech, but we can’t return to the old definitions of the good that conditioned our liberties in the not-so-distant past. Our new moral consensus is a fragile and somewhat meagre one. We control speech when it offends one of a few late-liberal priorities: scientific progress, diversity, the sanctity of identity. Like our older summa bona, however, the new virtues are flexible enough for us to abuse in the interest of silencing views that we dislike and with which we cannot bear to engage. In their different ways Christopher Hilliard and Eric Berkowitz provide historical examples of this process of self-deceit, even if neither can bring himself to fully draw out the modern moral of the story."
Jeffrey Collins
