Commentary Growing old has its compensations. One is institutional memory. Having been educated in an era when “Western civilization” was not a trope to be spat out like a bad oyster, I was free to absorb the cultural glories of the past without shame. At my Toronto public high school, Latin was obligatory. I loved…

Commentary Anyone with a spouse, child, parent, or close friend victimized by 21st-century “cancel culture” already knows it to be a profoundly disturbing, unjust, and soul-destroying experience. Vicious playwrights and the frantic mobs that follow their scripts have no respect for the limits of moral decency. The development of social media has empowered self-interested actors…