One of the underlying issues in the free speech debate is the unequal distribution of power.
Frymer suggested that ultimatelyWe can’t consider free speech without at least some understanding of power.
We can’t assume in all contexts that the truth will ever come out; unregulated speech does not mean free speech.
The framing in the current debate over free speech and the First Amendment, Post contends, is dangerously off-kilter.
Post makes the case that there is “a widespread tendency to conceptualize the problem as one of free speech.
Persons:
Steven Pinker, Biden, “, —, Paul Frymer, Frymer, I’m, Robert C, Post
Organizations:
Harvard, Freedom, University, Republicans, Washington Post, Trump, Yale
Locations:
“, Princeton