Yesterday, The Hill published an all-new op-ed by Steve Simpson on Hillary Clinton’s vow to appoint Supreme Court justices who oppose Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Dr. Jaana Woiceshyn, associate professor of business ethics and competitive strategy at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, Canada, recently wrote an article explaining why businessmen should care about the right to free speech — and how Steve Simpson’s Defending Free Speech provides the intellectual ammunition they need to fight for that right.
What is free speech? And why should we care? Today there’s a great deal of confusion, which is partly why the campaigns against free speech are so successful.
Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, Islamic totalitarians have been threatening and killing “offensive” “blasphemers” for the “crime” of exercising their right to free speech. But instead of standing up for and protecting the individual’s right to free speech, our leaders and intellectuals have been busy appeasing those who demand religion-based censorship and blaming the victims for being too provocative.
Today there are many threats to the individual’s right to free speech. Observe, for example, those who want to use so-called campaign finance laws to regulate and, thereby, suppress speech during political elections. Some even want to overturn Supreme Court decisions that properly recognize the free speech of organizations and corporations.
On July 20, 2016, Daniel Pryor, communications associate at Students for Liberty, wrote a favorable review of Defending Free Speech over at the Students for Liberty blog.
“[S]o long as you have free speech, protect it,” Ayn Rand said. “This is the life-and-death issue in this country . . .” Yet today that precious freedom is under siege.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally airing on July 9, Yaron Brook talks about the recent horrific shootings in Texas, Minnesota and Louisiana. Among other things, Yaron discusses the role of the police force in a free society, racism in America, affirmative action and racism, he ideal of “colorblindness” and “the war on cops.”
