Ideas matter. More than two
centuries after freedom of speech was enshrined in the First Amendment
to the Constitution, that right is very much in the news. Campus speech
codes, disinvited commencement speakers, jailed performance artists,
exiled leakers, a blogger condemned to a thousand lashes by one of our
closest allies, and the ... MORESteven Pinker: Why Free Speech Is Fundamental
Ideas matter. More than two
centuries after freedom of speech was enshrined in the First Amendment
to the Constitution, that right is very much in the news. Campus speech
codes, disinvited commencement speakers, jailed performance artists,
exiled leakers, a blogger condemned to a thousand lashes by one of our
closest allies, and the ... MORE