Rich Lowry: Our age of superstition

We live in a society gripped by a quasi-religious fervor and obsessed with symbols and irrational fears.Anything that is thought to have the slightest association with racism, no matter how attenuated the connection or how innocent the explanation, must be crushed and expunged. The mere presence of a possibly offending word is deemed a threat, whether it is truly offensive or any real people have actually taken offense. We are engaged in a war with shadowy forces that we can't truly understand,