By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.

My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.