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"Free Speech" and Consequences

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Jonathan V. Last
Jun 07, 2022
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1. Fork Around, Find Out

Many people are sympathetic to the plight of Ilya Shapiro, the conservative lawyer who lost a job he hadn’t yet started at Georgetown, then got it back, and then quit it in a huff, all because he tweeted something offensive.

Jonathan Chait has the most compelling argument in Shapiro’s defense:

Everybody supports free…

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