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Compelled Speech: A Great Horror To Liberty And Literature

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Jun 9, 2020 | History, Liberty, literature, Philosophy

Have you ever been forced to say something that you didn’t want to say? Maybe you didn’t believe it, was pressured by peers, or blackmailed. There’s a great term for that: compelled speech. And it is absolutely deadly to literature and liberty. Why...