“Hate” crimes are giving hate a bad name

Victor Davis Hanson explores the labyrinth of our society’s increasingly insane obsession with political correctness.

When justice becomes nothing more than a totem warred over by hostile tribes, then it really is time to turn the lights down low, lock those doors and windows, and walk among strangers bearing the old Marine adage in mind: “Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”