2.5 Reflection Prompt

Reflections

In your journal, take time to engage with the following reflection prompts.

  1. Freedom of speech, as we know it, is a product of the 20th century. Professor Siegel describes it as “a bold experiment” in privileging of freedom of speech when it comes into conflict with other values. When have you experience this kind of conflict of values, and what was your response?
  2. Robust freedom of speech is necessary to promote democracy, essential to individual autonomy and an essential element of the “marketplace of ideas.” What contemporary challenges to freedom of speech have you seen and how does the lecture shed light on the complexity of those challenges?
  3. Freedom of speech is essential to our constitutional project, while it doesn’t protect all speech in all places at all times, it has moved more in that direction in the last hundred years. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this evolution?
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