The New Yorker speaks up for speaking freely

"Democracies preclude contending absolutisms and the dicta of fixed identities. They have to do with identity in flux, with culture, and cultures, constantly transforming, molting into something new - something surprising and different and open-ended and free." That is how Jane Kramer tries to explain that freedom against absolutism is at issue in the so-called caricature strike: see the full article under this link> The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: