off but cannot hear others or make themselves heard. So, like the Tower, the current leadership would collapse. And maybe, I thought, that was precisely what they had in mind in relentlessly challenging the language. Whatever the case, I was growing weary of all the chaos, the demands for deference, the micro-cancellations. Increasingly I yearned—like the signatories of the Harper’s letter—to stand up for open and free discourse and to fight this ideological scourge, not to pretend that I supported it.
