four weeks to smuggle through an op-ed that doesn t suit the conventional narrative? i might as well commission the 5,000th op-ed saying donald trump is a moral monster. what s going on is the transformation of these sense-making institutions of american life. it s the news media, it s the publishing house, hollywood studios, our universities, and that are narrowing in a radical way what is acceptable to say and what isn t. you and i both know there doesn t need to be an edict from the c s-suite for people to say that. let me give aweyou an example. dory abbott, he was slated to give an incredibly prestigious public lecture, but he was canceled because of a twitter mob. what was his sin? he argued people should be hired on the basis of their merit and their individual, you know their individuality, not based on their identity as a group.