News item: Wendy Kaminer, The ACLU Retreats From Free Expression — The organization declares that speech it doesn’t like can ‘inflict serious harms’ and ‘impede progress,’ Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2018
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John Paul Schnapper-Casteras
Seidman underplays the crucial importance of First Amendment principles to the civil rights movement and the practice of protesting. The twentieth century is replete with examples of how activists, authors, and attorneys can spark meaningful and lasting change—on both sides of the aisle. — John Paul Schnapper-Casteras
The online dialogue continues over at First Amendment Watch with today’s posting of John Schnapper-Casteras’ response to Michael Seidman’s “Can Free Speech be Progressive?”
Additional posts will appear at the start of next week: