“Illiberalism is primarily about government action, about what people can force you to say and do or prohibit you from saying and doing, using the power of the state. But beyond that, and supporting that, there is a culture of illiberalism. For people to get to the point where they think they can send armed officers to shut you down or shut you up, they have to accept some form of puritanical doctrine that creates an extensive and ever-growing list of things that are supposedly so outrageous they cannot be tolerated.
Part of Symposium’s defense of a free society is to identify and push back against this culture of illiberalism, no matter where it comes from. Here are a few examples.”