Archive - The Free Voice

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

Aug 18, 2022

June 2022

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

Benjamin Schwarz

Jun 8, 2022

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

Jun 6, 2022

May 2022

The perils of clamping down on “misinformation”

Benjamin Schwarz

and

May 5, 2022

April 2022

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

Benjamin Schwarz

Apr 27, 2022

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

Apr 22, 2022

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

Benjamin Schwarz

and

Apr 5, 2022

March 2022

Frederick Douglass on the heckler’s veto

Mar 28, 2022

Dwight Macdonald on . . . cancel culture

Mar 16, 2022

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

Notes to Fighting-Words Post

Mar 8, 2022

February 2022

Conflating dissent with disloyalty

Benjamin Schwarz

and

Feb 28, 2022

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