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Kafka Comes to Scotland, and Free Speech Goes Missing

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Kafka Comes to Scotland, and Free Speech Goes Missing
Franz Kafka, in 1906. Sigismund Jacobi/public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Dalrymple
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You do not defend free speech by demanding it for yourself but by demanding it for others, especially when you reprehend the use to which they put it or what they say. Freedom to agree with yourself is no freedom at all and inevitably ends in tyranny.

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
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