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Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to The Dispatch: Is Free Speech Too Sacred?
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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