Townhall: Progressively Losing Freedom

Free speech is under attack, largely on grounds of “hate speech” charges, and backed by violent revolutionaries. Who are, it turns out, themselves backed by the former head of the Democratic Party. Click on over to Townhall to read this weekend’s Common Sense dose. Click back here to read …

• Fox News: Greg Gutfeld calls it “Another victory for the anti-​free speech movement”
• Common Sense: Thorns in the Parade
• Portland Tribune: Saturday Rose Festival-​sanctioned event canceled because of demonstration threat
• The Atlantic: The Glaring Evidence That Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus
• Fox News: Heather Mac Donald: Claremont speech cut short by protesters’ ‘brute, totalitarian force’
• Boston Globe: ‘Bell Curve’ author attacked by protesters at Middlebury College
• The Blaze: Howard Dean doubles down on ‘hate speech isn’t protected’ claims — then it backfires big time
• Wikipedia: The Cultural Revolution
• Wikipedia: The Gang of Four (band)
• Reason: Communism Killed 94M in 20th Century, Feels Need to Kill Again
• The College Fix: Columbia U. conservatives’ horror stories: Threatened, bullied, censored
• Independent Sentinel: Conservative Speaker at LA State University Threatened by Violent Fascist Students
• Fox Business: Public College Bans Conservative Speaker Shapiro After Liberals Protest
• WinstonChurchill​.com: The Sinews of Peace (‘Iron Curtain Speech’)