Commentary
The left has switched sides.
Many years ago, it fought on the campuses of North America to affirm society’s right to freedom of speech. Back then the left was all about individual liberty.
Its opponents were the conservatives in society who worked hard in the 1950s to suppress performers like Elvis Presley and create bodies such as the Georgia Literature Commission to help local prosecutors enforce obscenity laws and, once it gained more powers, censor hundreds of publications.
Most of that was gone by the early 1970s following the blossoming of the free speech movement on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley during the 1964–’65 academic year. It was the first—but certainly not the last—mass protest to appear on campuses in the 1960s. There was nothing conservative at all about the movement, which history remembers as very much a part of the New Left’s activism in the 1960s and 1970s….