Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink
&gt; Schools are being pressured to remove books and cancel professors for spreading the “wrong” ideas. These sentiments are all too familiar to me, and to anyone who has survived life in a dictatorship. The only answer is more freedom, more speech, not less.<p>This is a good sentiment, but it&#x27;s worth noting that the overwhelming majority of pressure to &quot;cancel&quot; books and academics is directed at the left by the right, regardless of what gets column inches and think-pieces.