Keep government hands off free speech
Posted on AllSides November 6th, 2019
From The Center
OPINION
On the relationship between freedom, societal norms and law, no one has yet improved upon Judge Learned Hand’s dictum: “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”
Nevertheless, people keep suggesting that government should use its coercive powers to control free expression in the name of social peace.
The latest is Richard Stengel, Nelson Mandela’s biographer, a distinguished former managing editor of Time magazine, former chief executive of the National Constitution Center and former undersecretary of...
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