Jim Grant on free speech being under threat in America

[T]here’s a cyclicality, there’s an episodic quality to our politics.  I don’t think these are end times politically.  I think it’s worrying, for example, that freedom of speech seems to be back on its heels as much as it has ever been.   I think freedom of speech, in America, was not quite so endangered even in the ’30s as it is now.  That is genuinely frightening.  I’m frightened by it.

~ Jim Grant, "Living Economic History: Q&A with Jim Grant," The Coffee Can Portfolio, December 10, 2020