The Free Voice

Dave Chappelle and the Creeping Concept of Blasphemy

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

Aug 18, 2022 • 

Jon Zobenica

6

June 2022

Principle is All You've Got

Free expression is merely an abstract concept--and that's just the point

Jun 8, 2022 • 

Benjamin Schwarz

5

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Beyond the First Amendment

When people abandon the spirit of liberty, no law can protect it

Jun 6, 2022 • 

Jon Zobenica

7

May 2022

Who Will Watch the Watchmen?

The perils of clamping down on “misinformation”

May 5, 2022 • 

Benjamin Schwarz

 and 

Jon Zobenica

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5

April 2022

A Shameful Breach of Academic Duty

In what is at least effectively a victory for free expression, MIT's two top administrators have resigned their posts.

Apr 27, 2022 • 

Benjamin Schwarz

7

Art Crushed by Political Orthodoxy...Again

When some students are offended by a mural, their law school effaces it

Apr 22, 2022 • 

Amna Khalid

10

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Art Crushed by Political Orthodoxy

Because soprano Anna Netrebko refuses to name names, the Metropolitan Opera blacklists her.

Apr 5, 2022 • 

Benjamin Schwarz

 and 

Jon Zobenica

5

March 2022

Violence Equals Silence

Frederick Douglass on the heckler’s veto

Mar 28, 2022 • 

Jon Zobenica

9

Dissenting from the Orthodoxy of Dissent

Dwight Macdonald on . . . cancel culture

Mar 16, 2022 • 

Jon Zobenica

6

“Well, That Is the Limit”: The Dark Provenance and Dangerous Consequences of the Fighting-Words Doctrine

Eighty years ago today the Supreme Court placed an asterisk next to the First Amendment. The Court has yet to remove it.

Mar 8, 2022 • 

Nick Schwarz

5

Fighting Words: Endnotes & Bibliography

Notes to Fighting-Words Post

Mar 8, 2022 • 

Nick Schwarz

4

February 2022

A Casualty of War

Conflating dissent with disloyalty

Feb 28, 2022 • 

Benjamin Schwarz

 and 

Jon Zobenica

10

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