Like so many other institutions, the ACLU is no longer itself. This is the distinct feeling I’ve had reading about what’s happening at companies and institutions across society—from Harvard to the New York Times, Disney to Google, the American Medical Association to the American Booksellers Association. So many institutions are suddenly behaving nothing like themselves—and often in direct contradiction to their stated values. The reason, in each case, seems to me to be the same: the entity’s telos—its core founding purpose—has been superseded by Social Justice Fundamentalism.
