Everyone Is Right

Keith Martin-Smith tackles America's free speech crisis in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination—examining how both left and right have abandoned principled commitments to the First Amendment in favor of tribal speech enforcement. The statistics are alarming: 34% of college students now believe violence can be justified to stop speech, while 70% think shouting down speakers is acceptable. Meanwhile, the right—once positioning itself as the defender of free speech—now threatens broadcast licenses (Jimmy Kimmel/ABC) and the Attorney General openly vows to prosecute "hate speech," which is constitutionally protected. Keith traces how we got here: the left's evolution from 20th-century free speech champions to 21st-century speech police, driven by sophisticated insights about power and identity that collapsed into "words are violence" when absorbed by pre-rational minds. The Biden administration's coordination with social media during COVID. Universities where 90% of faculty self-censor. A generation taught