According to the not-at-all-conservative but fairly rational Joel Kotkin, the modern left is retreating into a sort of feudalist orthodoxy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the past, the right, notably the segment affiliated with religious belief, was closely associated with censorship and control of thought. Today, enforced orthodoxy derives primarily from the left, emboldened by near total control of the media, university curricula and cultural products.
Remarkably [to the authors, anyway – Ed.], a recent study by the Atlantic found that \u201cthe most politically intolerant Americans\u201d tend be white, highly educated urban progressives.
Conservatives may have once driven intolerance from the pulpit and the press, but they no longer have the ability to exercise thought control in a meaningful way. <\/p>Long ago, religious zealots embraced feudal ideals, but increasingly it\u2019s the ultra-secular progressives who reprise the role of Medieval Inquisitors.<\/em>
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