Friday, April 25, 2025

Opinion: Free Speech, Free Trade, and the English-Speaking Worldview - Illinois Review

Vice President Vance has informed British Prime Ministert Keir Starmer that fixing Great Britain’s outrageous constraints on free speech will be a requirement to achieve a trade agreement between the U.S.A. and the U.K. - John F. Di Leo 
But we hear voices of dissent. “That’s not what a trade agreement is supposed to address!” “These deals are supposed to be about goods and money and commodities and technology, not about philosophical questions!”...
The dissenters are right about one thing: these trade agreements usually aren’t about speech. 
They usually don’t get into this sort of thing.
But that doesn’t mean the usual way is right.
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