Last week Matt Yglesias over at Vox tried his best to deflate the notion that America was becoming increasingly hostile to free speech. Unfortunately, as Daniel Bier over at Skeptical Libertarian noted, Yglesias’s own charts indicate that support for free speech among “Liberal” and “Slightly Liberal” Americans is at the lowest point in over 40 years.
— Read on mises.org/power-market/vox-gets-it-wrong-left-abandoning-free-speech

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