Harper's Magazine recently published "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” which was signed by 132 well-known people including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Gary Kasparov, Malcom Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky, and Wynton Marsalis.

"Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts," according to its 132 signatories. "But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity."

The response has been strident. "The signatories, many of them white, wealthy, and endowed with massive platforms, argue that they are afraid of being silenced," in the words of one response, "that so-called cancel culture is out of control, and that they fear for their jobs and free exchange of ideas, even as they speak from one of the most prestigious magazines in the country."

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