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The Cancel Culture Paradox
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The Cancel Culture Paradox

If self-censorship is the norm, why is free expression so unrestrained?

David French
Aug 24, 2021
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Earlier today the Liberty Fund Network published an extended essay I wrote entitled “Can American Liberty Survive American Animosity?” The thesis is relatively simple: While the law of free speech is at a high water mark, the culture of free speech is under assault, and the longer the cultural assault lasts, the more fragi…

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