Is Free Speech Dead?
As Charlie Kirk pointed out on Hannity last week, “free speech isn’t really so free anymore. It’s actually quite expensive.” After all, it cost the college $600,000 to pay for all of Ben Shapiro’s security at his event at UC Berkeley earlier this month. The left wants to make it so difficult and inconvenient for conservative speakers to give speeches at college campuses that many of them will not even bother trying anymore. To a degree, the left’s attempts to deter conservative speakers have succeeded. Two conservative recording artists, Kaya Jones and Joy Villa, had initially planned to attend Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley but ultimately declined to so after receiving death threats. Villa had previously angered the lefties in Hollywood by wearing a Trump gown to the Grammy Awards earlier this year. Speaking of Free Speech Week, The Berkley Patriot, the Campus’...