THE AMERICAN INTEREST
Free Speech Under Siege
by Michael Mandelbaum
July 27, 2020

…The assault on free speech is surprising, too, because it is taking place within two institutions founded on that very liberty, the press and the academy. Indeed, the two could hardly exist without it. Yet now it is there that it is under the most virulent attack. Third, while restrictions on speech are all too common around the world, in most countries it is the government that imposes them. In the United States, by contrast, the campaign against freedom of speech comes not from above but from below, from the aggressive tactics of majorities—or militant, intimidating minorities—within these institutions. READ MORE