What Conservatives Mean by ‘Freedom of Speech’
They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.
Adam Serwer
Adam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Cruelty Is the Point. Adam has previously been a recipient of the 2021 Moment Magazine Robert S. Greenberger Journalism award, the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism, and the 2019 Salute to Excellence Award for commentary from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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