Freedom for the Thought That We Hate is a 2007 non-fiction book by Anthony Lewis about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of thought, and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Lewis discusses key free speech case law, including U.S. Supreme Court opinions in United States v. Schwimmer (1929), New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), and New York Times Co. v. United States (1971). The book's title is drawn from the dissenting opinion by Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (pictured) in United States v. Schwimmer, who wrote: "if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." The book was positively received by The New York Times, Harvard Magazine, Nat Hentoff, two National Book Critics Circle members, and Kirkus Reviews. Jeremy Waldron criticized the work in The New York Review of Books and elaborated on this in The Harm in Hate Speech (2012). This prompted a critical analysis of both works in The New York Review of Books by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_the_Thought_That_We_Hate

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1396:

Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis

1790:

Peking opera (performer pictured) was born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduced Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_opera

1911:

An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Libert%C3%A9

1983:

In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape

2008:

Shenzhou 7, the third spaceflight of the Chinese space program and their first to include a spacewalk, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_7

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

lampoon: To satirize or poke fun at. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lampoon

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.   --Glenn Gould https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould