A State of Fear

Should we agree right here and now that people’s political opinions have nothing to do with how they do their job? Even when their job has an intellectual and emotional component.

There are — or should be — good teachers of all political stripes, more or less in proportion to those political stripes in the nation. And there are — or should be — artists of all political stripes, more or less in proportion with the existence of those politics in the nation. Also same proportion of psychiatrist...