By Wesley Pruden
Political Correctness, or self-censorship, governs the conduct of these elites, who would be more comfortable with the European model of free speech, as set out in Germany, where talking about certain subjects is against the law. The Germans nevertheless insist that they, too, practice free speech: You can say anything you like as long as you say only what the government says you can say.
Americans could once laugh at such concepts of “free,” given our constitutional guarantee of the right to say anything. There were only natural limits: “Your rights end,” went the schoolyard warning of yesteryear, “where my nose begins.” This is the only “context” for free speech we’ve ever needed, and it’s the only one we need now.
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