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Free Speech and the First Amendment
From libertarian absolutists to corporate censors of hate speech and every position in between, the First Amendment remains fundamental not just to America as an idea, but also to the place of Jews within that. Who can say what, about whom, in what contexts?
Anti-pornography march in Times Square, New York, 1979
Anti-pornography march in Times Square, New York, 1979
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Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech

Is the liberal search for truth missing a sense of the common good, and a historically informed understanding of the violence of words?

byBlake Smith
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The Borg of the Gargoyles

How government, tech, finance, and law enforcement converged into an all-knowing criminalization complex—and how to resist it

byJeff GarzikandJeremy Stern
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Brilliantly Anticipated Today’s Illiberal Movement to Ban Hate Speech

A return to the early-1990s origins of victimization in identity politics, then—and now—a distraction from the real challenges of structural and institutional racism in America

byWesley Yang

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(Photo illustration: Tablet Magazine; original photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images)
(Photo illustration: Tablet Magazine; original photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images)