Saturday, September 24, 2016

"Free Speech Is Fragile"

"Protecting freedom of speech involves protecting the voices of people with whom you may violently disagree. In my youth, liberals would defend the right of neo-Nazis to march down Main Street. I cannot imagine anyone on the left making that case today."

Lionel Shriver in The New York Times responds to the response to her speech in Australia on writing fiction.

Jonathan Foreman at Commentary revisits the ruckus.

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