The Perils of Benevolence: Roger Kimball manages to wring a fine essay out of a subject that we all thought had descended into self-parody long about 1991: political correctness. In the process, he makes an indelible point, neatly summed up in the subtitle of the essay, "the perils of benevolence." The great danger of the political moralists (be they secular or religious) is that any action can be countenanced in the pursuit of their right-thinking utopia. This is why the new left doesn't recoil in horror from the kind of newspeak and banishment of ideas being practiced today. They can't be wrong, can they? After all, "they mean well."