Thursday, April 27, 2023

Why is Compelled Speech So Poisonous to the First Amendment

 As Professor Robert George of Princeton University has said:

“Ordinary authoritarians are content to forbid people from saying things they know or believe to be true.

Totalitarians insist on forcing people to say things they know or believe to be untrue."

 

What point was Prof. George making there?

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