Why We Need a Fully Free Marketplace of Ideas

by | Oct 28, 2020

Why We Need a Fully Free Marketplace of Ideas

by | Oct 28, 2020

No true seeker of truth can oppose the fully free marketplace of ideas. For details of the hardheaded practical case, you can do no better than to consult chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. If you can’t spare the time to read this short chapter and book, here’s the money quote: “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the former executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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