A successful movement needn’t believe in a god, but it does need to believe in a devil.

June 2022

Free expression is merely an abstract concept--and that's just the point
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When people abandon the spirit of liberty, no law can protect it

May 2022

The perils of clamping down on “misinformation”
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April 2022

In what is at least effectively a victory for free expression, MIT's two top administrators have resigned their posts.
When some students are offended by a mural, their law school effaces it
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Because soprano Anna Netrebko refuses to name names, the Metropolitan Opera blacklists her.
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March 2022

Frederick Douglass on the heckler’s veto
Dwight Macdonald on . . . cancel culture
Eighty years ago today the Supreme Court placed an asterisk next to the First Amendment. The Court has yet to remove it.
Notes to Fighting-Words Post

February 2022

Conflating dissent with disloyalty
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