Imagine a scene: an intimate gathering where people are boozing, dancing, and laughing the night away, terrified in the back of their minds that the police will burst in at any moment. However, not even the police, the law, nor politicians are able to prevent the continuation of such parties. This is something familiar, notContinue reading “A Lesson From Prohibition”
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Free speech is a myth. Here is why I believe in it.
“I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” As cliché as Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s saying may be (that’s right, it wasn’t actually Voltaire who said it but Hall, summarising Voltaire’s views on freedom of speech in her 1906 book titled The Friends of Voltaire), theseContinue reading “Free speech is a myth. Here is why I believe in it.”
The Liberty Club 