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When are you entering that stage of life called “old age”? It depends on who you ask.

"Mallard Fillmore," meet "Doonesbury." It didn’t take long for the decision by Gannett Co. to drop the conservative comic strip "Mallard Fillmore" from its newspapers to be decried by conservative websites as just one more example of “cancel culture.” “Conservative Mallard Fillmore cartoon canceled by leftists,” said the Independent Sentinel. The Red Alert declared, “Cancel culture has claimed another conservative scalp." And then there was the tweet by Bruce Tinsley, the cartoo...

The notion that there’s a liberal wave of intolerance badly misreads history. This nation has seen decades of backlash against provocative views.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 DOONESBURY © G. B. Trudeau. Reprinted with permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved. Image: ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION The ground-breaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for a half-century. It was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. Its also been censored for some of those same reasons. It all began as an irreverent strip called Bull Tales in the Yale Daily News when Garry...