Author of The Intimidation Game comes to Hamilton College
January 26, 2017On Wednesday, January 24, the Alexander Hamilton Institute, in partnership with The Manhattan Institute, presented a talk and question and answer session by author, journalist and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Kimberly Strassel. The self-proclaimed “first amendment fanatic” writes the weekly WSJ column, “Potomac Watch,” and recently released her newly published book The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech. Her talk, which essentially summarized the arguments and stories in her book, began with an anecdote about her three children and their different views on what free speech is and how we ought to limit it. Her oldest child expressed a conservative view, her middle child a libertarian view, and her younger child a “totalitarian socialist view on free speech, claiming “you can say what you want to say as long as I like it.” Strassel claimed that this totalitarian socialist view most closely mimics contemporary instances of government overstep in cases of conservative speech. More ...