A letter on justice and open debate

But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second,

according to this address.

The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides, they add.