\u200bAmerican exceptionalism is a Will McAvoy speech wrapped in a Big Mac, and nowhere is this more evident than in the country’s take on free speech\u2014a delusion that is bipartisan, irrespective of whether one votes red, blue, or purple. Take a recent New Yorker piece titled The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault on Free Speech, which, like all others in the same vein, operates under the assumption that Trump isn\u2019t ceteris paribus but a unique, Agent Smith-like bug in the American simulation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u200bAmerican exceptionalism is a Will McAvoy speech wrapped in a Big Mac, and nowhere is this more evident than in the country’s take on free speech\u2014a delusion that is bipartisan, irrespective of whether one votes red, blue, or purple. Take a recent New Yorker piece titled The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault… Read More »Not just Trump: Why crushing ‘free speech’ is a norm for America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}