freedom of speech

Responding to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement the Trump administration will begin siding with plaintiffs in challenging public universities that fail to uphold freedom of speech.

Many on the left are campaigning to “overturn Citizens United.”

Heterodox Academy is an association of university professors who are committed to the freedoms of speech and of expression in society and in the academy, and are resisting the censorship, “safe-space”, and “trigger-warning” madness that currently afflicts so many campuses.

The First Amendment reads (in part): “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech….” “Abridge” is legally defined as: “…(T)he making of a declaration or count shorter, by taking or severing away some of the substance from it.” The Founders prohibited the government from not just silencing speech – but from doing anything at all to in any way reduce it.

The libertarian take on the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday in the Westboro Baptist/military funerals case may be boiled down to the old nostrum that we may disagree with what the…