"Uninhibited, robust and wide-open debate," is dead in U.S.: James Varney/Wednesday chat
 

The notion we have the sort of "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" debate on public issues that Justice William Brennan championed in his N.Y. Times vs. Sullivan opinion is about as realistic and quaint as trying to live today by firelight. This...

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