In the New York Observer, Cathy Young laments the rise of
“social justice warriors,” primarily on campus and online, arguing that “this version of ‘social justice’ is not about social justice at all. It is a cultish, essentially totalitarian ideology deeply inimical—as liberals such as Jonathan Chait wam in New York Magazine—to the traditional values of the liberal left, and not just because of the movement’s hostility to freedom of speech.”