Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump
The Good Fight
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Are You a Defender of Liberal Democracy?
I think one of the most worrying elements of this culture is, you know, things like people getting into trouble for liking a tweed. And when in an even more extreme circumstance of a sort of idea of silence being violence. The fact that you did not actively speak out on this particular issue makes you somehow morally open to a question. That's absolutely right. Ordinary authoritarians are content to forbid people from saying things they believe to be true. Totalitarians aren't content with that. They take the additional step of forcing people to say things they don't believe. We have moved from that authoritarian impulse to the totalitarian impulse in too many sectors.
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