Progressive “cancel culture” recently claimed two of its own. Former President Woodrow Wilson, one of the early leaders of the progressive movement, is having his name purged from Princeton University, an institution he once led. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, also had her name removed from a New York abortion facility. The reason in both cases was the racism of the long-dead figure in question.

Cancel culture is the logical outcome of a largely successful effort by the Left to impose ideological conformity upon the nation’s academic, business, cultural, political, and social institutions — an orthodoxy so rigid that all other views not only are considered unworthy, but unspeakable. Even a youthful utterance made long in the past is now enough to destroy someone’s reputation or career.