E.O. Wilson and the birth of cancel culture

Would the Huxley-Wilberforce debate even be allowed today?

E.O. Wilson, who died on Boxing Day, was a giant in the field of biology. He was also a significant figure in the history of what became known as political correctness and later cancel culture, being one of its first victims. And the campaign against him worked. When we say ‘we won’t see his like again’, it is almost certainly true, not just because of …