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The Fake Crusade for Free Speech

Behind the Bastards

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The Good Doctor Identifies Personally as a Classic British Liberal

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist who believes in the right to freedom of speech. He says he's an evolutionary biologist and neuroscientist, two things that respectable professors or doctors wouldn't claim to be if they were not. John Stuart Mill argued for big government approach to situations when exercise of liberty might result in harm to others. In 1919, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote opinions upholding three cases upholding prison sentences of members of Socialist Party.

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