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Free speech is in advance of our society.

It's not that you want some fat cat central planner sitting on top.

What you want is just ordinary guardrails and putting things in their proper place.

So when you go to the guys who really promoted free speech, John Locke, John Milton, John Stuart Mill, for some reason it's a lot of Johns, all of them are pointing out that free speech is for something.

It's not an end unto itself, but it's for getting to the truth.

This is a dangerous argument.

If you want to read the full argument, you can get Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, number one national bestseller available wherever great books are sold.

But again, I have other critiques of free speech, but what I'm saying is the guys who actually advanced free speech, all of the classical liberals from whom we get our free speech tradition, those are the arguments that they were making.

That's not even just my argument.

And so when it comes to social responsibility for the economy, I love J.D.

's new book.

I think it's terrific.

including when he's talking about the economy, there's this great chapter where he's talking, it's called The Dismal Science, which is a line that he takes from Thomas Carlyle, the conservative, but even Carlyle is kind of borrowing it from Edmund Burke, the founder of modern Anglo-American conservatism.

Edmund Burke decries the transformation of politics

which he says has lost the age of chivalry and the age of economists, sophisters and calculators has succeeded.

And so when you look at an economy, you say, look, obviously we want a lot of economic growth, but it's for something else.

And the classic example would be if we were just serving GDP, well, we could increase GDP by legalizing and prostitution.

And then our GDP actually would go up.

There would be more measured economic activity, but that would actually be bad for society.

And I guess the idea is,