Barbara Kay: Mark Steyn’s Trial Has Important Implications for Freedom of Speech

Scientist Michael Mann attends the New York screening of the HBO Documentary "How To Let Go Of The World And All The Things Climate Can't Change" in New York on on June 21, 2016. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for HBO

Commentary

Iago, Shakespeare’s villain in “Othello,” set a high price on his reputation: “Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.”