Greatness Itself Has Become Suspect

Stand up for Shakespeare. Or be erased. It won’t end here - they are just getting started. https://t.co/9F5OzHItfq

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) March 21, 2026

…generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it.

What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance.

The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards.

Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds.

A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.