Archive for ‘Free Speech’

Newt Gingrich is starting to sound lot like John McCain: “The First Amendment is all well and good, but…” More »

I can’t defend the “n-word.” I can’t defend the “f-word.” I can’t defend the “u-word.” (You’re thinking hard, aren’t you.) However, they are just words – tools to express ideas. More »

If you’re a MySpace user, here’s the site for Robert Shields, who was executed by the state of Texas in August for stabbing to death his parents’ next door neighbor in Friendswood. More »

I have planned two Coffee House Thursday events during the Maymester Comm Law trip to Oxford. During the late 1600s and early 1700s in England, the coffee house became the center of free exchange of opinion and discussion, much like dinner clubs in Germany and wine salons in France. They were the initial laboratories of the marketplace of ideas concept. More »