Free speech has been in retreat for years. The previous administration just targeted a different flavor of 'offending speech' and cracked down hard on it. As a

Free speech has been in retreat for years. The previous administration just targeted a different flavor of 'offending speech' and cracked down hard on it. As a European, I can confirm it’s at least as bad here, if not worse. We’re just gagged by a different set of taboo ideas. I bought into Trump’s campaign promise to 'restore free speech' — partly because he’d been censored so aggressively himself. I figured he’d get its value. But I didn’t see the Israel exception coming: apparently, Israel and its actions are untouchable, no matter the cost.