In a recent Vox article, law professor Robert Post makes the striking claim that “There is no 1st Amendment right to speak on a college campus.” His argument strikes me as spectacularly wrong. Take this paragraph: “But here we are talking about public discourse: the free flow of ideas in newspapers, in public squares, on debate […]

People get upset at Socrates (really, Plato) for disdaining democracy in favor of what today is being called epistocracy. The reason is usually that this disdain harbors an elitism, repudiating equality and thus justice. But there is a further wrinkle. It gradually emerges that equality implies autonomy (I am not free if I am subordinated), […]