09 Jun 2016

Ali Is Dead, Fear Is Alive, and Free Speech Is Being Dealt a Knockout Punch

By John W. Whitehead
Muhammad Ali in 1966. Photo from the Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau.

As a nation, we have a tendency to sentimentalize cultural icons in death in a way that renders them nonthreatening, antiseptic, and easily digested by a society with an acute intolerance for anything controversial, politically incorrect, or marred by imperfection.

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