The campaign to censor social media across the West

Published November 4, 2025 8:00am ET



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In 1965, the Guru of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, penned an essay that neatly brought together both strands of the unitary threat faced today by conservatives defending Western civilization: the threat of online censorship and the threat of street violence. Six decades later, it has come back with renewed force.

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