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Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Challenge of Democracy
The challenge of democracy is finding ways to navigate all of that without losing the freedom that makes it possible. I think free speech is justified because it's the light blood of democracy, he says. But this is important not necessarily because it leads to truth or a sound marketplace of ideas. "What citizens in a democracy think is true is more important than what is actually true"
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