This is Chapter 4 of Willmoore Kendall's "The Conservative Affirmation in America." I hope it's interesting. ---------------------- Chapter 4: Freedom of Speech in America I am often asked whether I am “for” or “against” freedom of speech, or what I understand to be the Conservative position on freedom of speech, or whether in my view freedom of speech is “defensible,” and should be defended, “on principle.” They are not “happy” questions, because I doubt whether the freedom of speech “issue,” as Mill for example stated it in the Essay, is a genuine, non-spurious, issue. Rather, it seems to me that...