America's age of erasure

What happens when a mob demands that representations of people or events that fall short of current moral standards be taken down and destroyed?

Adios, Kevin Spacey.
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No one who cares about the dignity and autonomy of women, or who longs for men to be more than predatory perverts, can fail to be pleased by the recent public humiliation of so many alleged serial harassers and abusers in the worlds of entertainment and journalism.

But that doesn't mean the character and extent of the punishment always fits the transgression.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.