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

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

Benjamin Schwarz

Jun 8

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

Jun 6

The perils of clamping down on “disinformation”

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Benjamin Schwarz

May 5

MIT's two top administrators have resigned their posts. Good riddance.

Benjamin Schwarz

Apr 27

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

Apr 22

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

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Benjamin Schwarz

Apr 5

Frederick Douglass on the heckler’s veto

Mar 28

Dwight Macdonald on . . . cancel culture

Mar 16

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

Mar 8

Notes to Fighting-Words Post

Mar 8

Conflating dissent with disloyalty

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Benjamin Schwarz

Feb 28

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