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The First Amendment and the World

America today is in the grip of a great fear—fear of foreign terrorism, specifically from the Islamic State and its allies, and generally from what some have called “radical Islam.” Candidates and political leaders are floating proposals for keeping Americans safe from foreign persons, ideologies, and religions: “shutting down” parts of the Internet; having Facebook […]