Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Nov. 25, 2016. It’s being republished here via a collaborative agreement. In 1941, while war raged in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech to Congress, “present[ing] a vision in which the American ideals of individual liberties were extended throughout the […]
Freedom of Speech
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From Lincoln to LeBron, freedom of speech defeats perspective
I long for the days of perspective. When a wise voice could step to the fore with a calm, reasoned approach; when common sense prevailed and a settling demeanor won the day. That’s what I kept thinking recently after reading what later turned out to be yet another politically-charged, wildly inaccurate story in one of […]