The way things have become …

… Phyllis Chesler: The New Censorship. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Today, Orwell’s Thought Police are, rather ominously, everywhere. There is a definite intellectual chill in the air. Reason and civility are all but gone in the public square. In its place, we have insults, shaming, censorship and self-censorship that is meant to “pass” for thought. Hotly internalized propaganda rules the day online. We have met Big Brother, and he is us.

Those who have confidence in their ideas relish matching them against opposing ideas.