I’ve long maintained that the left is worse on most issues than the right–worse on both economic and personal liberties. Worse on free speech, for example. They oppose “commercial” free speech rights; they advocate speech codes, affirmative action and antidiscrimination laws that muzzle free speech. And with the manifest collapse of outright socialism in the 1990s and the more and more evident failures of their policies–as they run out of excuses and arguments in favor of interventionism–the resort more and more frequently to this retort: “Shut up!” Case on point: the January 2005 issue of Corporate Counsel (a magazine for … Continue reading Leftist Censorship