Jad Abumrad

Like, it's like Lasky is this young radical who's getting punished for something he said.

And then at the same time, he has this case in front of him of young radicals who are getting arrested for something they said.

So he doesn't step in for his friend, but then he does step in for Abrams and company.

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths... We've been wrong before.

That the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade and ideas.

The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

That, at any rate, is the theory of our constitution.

It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Really beautiful.

the great legal journalist Anthony Lewis, this is the way he writes it, those dissents, and in particular the Abrams dissent, quote, did in time overturn the old crabbed view of what the First Amendment protects.

It was an extraordinary change, really a legal revolution.

And in particular, it's because he wrapped it in this metaphor, the marketplace of ideas, that it caught on so quickly and widely.

The idea of the marketplace of ideas exploded.

Not just in the courts.

The school is supposed to be the ultimate marketplace of ideas.

But also beyond it.

The answer is more speech, not less.

But as soon as you scratch the surface.

And start to think about how the marketplace actually works.

No matter how offensive, repugnant, repellent language or imagery.