John Milton, Eric Weinstein, and the Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
John Milton, Eric Weinstein, and the Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
Investor and podcaster Eric Weinstein recently argued that free speech is overrated. While supporting the idea of the First Amendment, he said that free speech alone was insufficient to combat bad ideas. As he put it, “This whole concept of the marketplace of ideas doesn’t actually work because marketplaces have market failures and very fit...