“Free Speech defines us, and that is the awakening that we all have to try to work towards,” George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley says.
Turley made his remarks on this week’s episode of “The Kevin Roberts Show” podcast.
In his recent book, published in June, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” Turley explored why people need free speech to be fully human.
“But, most importantly, what this book tries to say is that we’ve gone through ages of rage, perhaps not as rageful as this one, but we’ve survived,” he said. “But what we’ve learned is that rage doesn’t define us.”
Although governments can reduce people’s appetite for free speech, they can never kill people’s taste for it, Turley said.
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