JOSEPH finds Roger intolerant of criticism and dissent, citing this sentence fragment: “…led me, a couple of years ago, to issue a public letter announcing that Encounter Books, of which I am the publisher, would no longer be sending its books to the Times. Why collude in their pretense of evenhandedness….”

The end of the sentence he could not find space for: “…by sending them books that they would never notice?”

To my mind the major barrier to a civil dialogue with the Leftlings is their inability to read sentences all the way through—never mind whole paragraphs.