Foremost among these is the fetish for free speech as the sole end of political life. Loath to actually govern, lest it encroach on donor-class prerogatives, the institutional right has long substituted procedural claims – why can’t I ask questions! – for substantive ones about the good life. Free speech and inquiry are valuable. But treated as the highest good, these ideals give rise to a pure shock-jock politics.
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There is an intellectual sickness on the American right
When free speech is treated as the highest good, it gives rise to shock-jock politics.
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