Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to The Dispatch: Is Free Speech Too Sacred?
June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025
NEW YORK, June 17 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on June 16, 2025, to The Dispatch:
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Is Free Speech Too Sacred?
By Tal Fortgang
There are other rights besides the right to free expression.
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered what would become a canonical statement about free speech limits: The First Amendment does not protect "falsely shouting fire in a theatre.&q . . .
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Is Free Speech Too Sacred?
By Tal Fortgang
There are other rights besides the right to free expression.
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered what would become a canonical statement about free speech limits: The First Amendment does not protect "falsely shouting fire in a theatre.&q . . .