The theatrical meltdown over Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter again shows how free speech is now a radically dangerous idea to the Left and most of the ruling elite, according to Andrew Doyle in Spiked. Though hardly naïve about Musk’s challenges in cleaning up the Twitter cesspool, Doyle sounds a hopeful note for open public discourse.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


