Pornographers, Nazis, and other
transgressors of the sacred thus form a stable alliance with civil
libertarians. This valorization of “sponsoring study-abroad sojourns in the
land of fire and brimstone” is peculiar. Most “cultures do not train souls for
the ironic contortionism that liberal subjectivity calls for.” Rather, most of
the world’s population “cannot hear certain things without wanting to hit
somebody.” Free speech is a distinctive cultural formation, and those who would
maintain it had better know what it is that they are maintaining.
There’s also a discussion of copyright and the First
Amendment.
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