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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.
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Jon Zobenica

June 2022

Principle is All You've Got
Free expression is merely an abstract concept--and that's just the point
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Benjamin Schwarz
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Beyond the First Amendment
When people abandon the spirit of liberty, no law can protect it
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Jon Zobenica

May 2022

Who Will Watch the Watchmen?
The perils of clamping down on “misinformation”
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Benjamin Schwarz
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Jon Zobenica
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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.
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Benjamin Schwarz
Art Crushed by Political Orthodoxy...Again
When some students are offended by a mural, their law school effaces it
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Amna Khalid
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Art Crushed by Political Orthodoxy
Because soprano Anna Netrebko refuses to name names, the Metropolitan Opera blacklists her.
 • 
Benjamin Schwarz
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Jon Zobenica

March 2022

Violence Equals Silence
Frederick Douglass on the heckler’s veto
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Jon Zobenica
Dissenting from the Orthodoxy of Dissent
Dwight Macdonald on . . . cancel culture
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Jon Zobenica
“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.
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Nick Schwarz
Fighting Words: Endnotes & Bibliography
Notes to Fighting-Words Post
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Nick Schwarz

February 2022

A Casualty of War
Conflating dissent with disloyalty
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Benjamin Schwarz
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Jon Zobenica
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