Dawson: Your library's on the front lines of intellectual freedom

These days, an enterprising person with strongly held and controversial opinions can become a free speech warrior by being a jerk online and using the blowback to solicit alms to support their work.
If, by luck, their views are protested on a university campus, they get to really proclaim their right to free speech is under attack, and bam! – they’ve just punched their ticket to the good life, celebrated by newspaper pundits and declaiming, henceforth, on anything and everything.
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