Nothing can be less selfish than this. But now our inquisitorial society proposes to punish a person for an unpopular exercise of her fee speech by interfering with her relationship to her property. It used to be that infamy was its own punishment, that the odium of one's fellow citizens was a fate to be feared. In present day America, however, infamy is only a form of fame, and sensitivity is another name for silencing. So we are offended by baseball's response to her statements, and we are delighted to live in a polity in which we may so often take, and give, offense.
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