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I could get fired for what I'm about to say.

From the column: "The First Amendment's rightly revered protections of free speech and a free press only hold that the government can't silence your rights to speak freely. When someone in the wider public conversation puts forth an opinion that's controversial or even highly unpopular, America's free-speech protections say the answer is not censorship but criticism."

By Matthew Gagnon “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” These were the words of Justice Louis Brandeis, penned in a concurring opinion in the 1927 Supreme Court Case Whitney v.

The whole thing has the feel of writing-by-committee, and that’s never the way to put forth a strong, coherent argument.

I could get fired for what I’m about to say. Mind you, that’s not something I expect. I’m just saying it’s theoretically possible. Somebody could objec