As someone with extensive personal experience with the suppression of debate by ideological conformity, I'm happy to see names from all over the political spectrum signing this open letter about its rise in the free world. https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Note that the signatories aren't the ones worried about being "cancelled". Most of us have reputations, platforms, security. We are worried about the stifling of other new ideas and new voices due to fear, groupthink, and discrimination.

In the USSR, it wasn't only the Party censors who limited what writers wrote, it was every writer knowing in advance what they could and could not say, and what would happen to them if they erred. Fear is the greatest censor of them all.

America innovates in tech because it has never been afraid to take risks and fail. Competition works, and the hottest cauldron produces the strongest steel. The same is true of ideas, of creativity, of literature. Freedom is the lifeblood of art.