Comments on: Free speech roundup

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:18:05 +0000

I disagree with the idea that writers should be given pure academic freedom to write what they want in their employer’s publication. You write what your employer wants you to write. If you disagree and you get fired for it, feel free to stick it on the Internet.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:09:24 +0000

AA>Sorry, there’s no analogy there whatsoever. Government punishment of speech is wholly unlike a private magazine’s decision to run some writers but not others. Whether committed to free speech or not, if one refuses to subscribe to any publication that exercises its right to choose its roster of writers, one will need to unsubscribe from pretty much every publication.

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:39:15 +0000

Meant to say, “the politically INcorrect advice he gave.”

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:38:31 +0000

Just so everyone’s clear on National Review/NRO’s stand on free speech:

If a Brit is targeted by the British government for politically incorrect speech, that’s bad. But if Brit who writes for National Review/NRO — say, John Derbyshire — has something politically incorrect to say, he gets fired. In all likelihood by a collection of people who follow to the letter the politically correct advice he gave.

And if we’re going to make a government/private party distinction here, fair enough. Support free speech by dropping your subscription to National Review.