Points of Departure

by Conor Friedersdorf

Over at National Review, David Pryce-Jones recounts the shameful way that Canadian authorities have treated Mark Steyn, a writer whose right to publish whatever he wants without getting hauled before a tribunal ought to be sacrosanct, full stop. (In fact, I wonder if a defense fund could be set up so that anyone brought up on charges in Canada could draw on it.)

This part of the post jumped out at me:

Mark Steyn is a humorous writer, but he has a serious purpose, namely to...