Michael Glennon lays out powerful, historically-grounded, practical arguments that our robust First Amendment free speech principles best protect the safety of society and democracy-showing the urgency of invoking time-tested First Amendment tenets to curb the massive online speech restrictions that Big Tech has been implementing in collaboration with Big Government. A persuasive refutation of burgeoning claims that we should sacrifice free speech for the sake of such concerns as public health, electoral integrity, and national security.
Michael J. Glennon is Professor of Constitutional and International Law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before entering teaching, he was the Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is the author or co-author of ten books, including National Security and Double Government (OUP, 2014) and Constitutional Diplomacy (Princeton, 1990). His op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, and Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung.