Liberals purport to venerate “tolerance” and “diversity”—until it involves tolerating diverse public policy opinions that deviate from liberal orthodoxy. The most recent example of this political correctness is the increasingly aggressive effort to brand anyone who does not pledge fealty to “climate change” orthodoxy as not just a heretic, but now a criminal, too.
This is not entirely new: Three years ago, climate scientist Michael Mann sued the National Review magazine and one of its then-contributors for calling his global warming studies “bogus.” (We represent National Review in that litigation.) Asking the courts to resolve an active scientific debate—and penalize dissenters through large damages awards—was appalling enough.
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