How should one begin to understand why the modern left mischaracterizes the constitutionally vested Electoral College system as a setback to democracy, or why they paint parental efforts to curate age-appropriate school library contents as “book burning?” Such ad hominem attacks, distasteful indeed, are standard operating procedures to deflect from their own illiberal impulses. But […]
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“Hate speech is excluded from protection,” CNN anchor Chris Cuomo tweeted last year, echoing a dangerously common misconception. “Hate speech isn’t free speech,” people say, assuming they have a right not to hear whatever they consider hateful language and ideas. Government officials sometimes share this view: The Mayor of West Hollywood confirmed to Eugene Volokh […]
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