You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.