And reflecting on Marcuse seems especially apropos in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Marcuse had made some striking statements on why the words and thoughts of more conservative and traditional folks should be disallowed. Marcuse was also clear that force might be needed to silence the words and prevent the thoughts of traditionalists or conservatives. That tendency becomes explicit in his classic essay “Repressive Tolerance,” published in 1965 in A Critique of Pure Tolerance (which Marcuse co-edited). I doubt the young man who killed Charlie Kirk was staying up late at night wading through Marcuse’s difficult philosophical works.