Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Thursday, November 21, 2002 :::
A good column by Eugene Volokh about speech codes; it starts by discussing the need for restrictions on speech and transitions to the difference between social sanctions and legalistic ones. I went to a David Horowitz event once where some students protested the mechanism by which they were to ask questions of him, and I remember being struck by their view of what "free speech" meant. Free speech is to cacophony as liberty is to anarchy; it should be a channeling that doesn't restrain ideas, but won't let them overpower by brute force someone else's.
