Articles written by David Hudson

David Hudson|Mar 2, 2023

At times, it is most tempting to censor speech or to call for the censorship of speech we don’t like, but before engaging in those impulses, we should consider Justice Brandeis’s time-honored message of “more speech, not enforced silence.” A natural human response to harmful speech is to punish, silence, or censor the speaker. After all, who wants to hear speech we consider overtly offensive, heinously hateful, or insensibly ignorant? But when the government acts as a punisher, silencer, or censor, the First Amendment acts as a strong bulwark...