Dissidents and Doublethinkers in Our Democracy

Laszlo Baranyai
Plus: a new organization picking up the flag the ACLU has put down.
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I know a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing. What you censor, of course, depends on where you sit.
My liberal friends who live in red America confess to avoiding discussio…
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