Douthat on "cancel culture"

I think that the best column I have read on the (always verging on the tedious) topic of "cancel culture" is by Ross Douthat.  It's worth clearing your browser cache to read it.

I tend to get annoyed with both extremes on the topic - those on the Left who are disinclined to admit there are shouty, illiberal, snowflakey liberals who would like to see those who don't toe their (usually identity politics driven) takes "punished" in one form or another; and those on the Right who think this is completely new and novel and ignore conservative examples of seeking to punish liberals, as well as the fatuous self serving line that all offence taking is stupid and only exists because people choose to be offended.

It's pretty clear, I think, that Douthat is similarly somewhere in the middle on this.