2020 has been nothing short of ruinous for free speech. The list of “cancelled” celebrities, academics and private citizens continues to grow in response to infractions of politically correct convention. Such responses have even turned deadly, shown by the brutal murder of French teacher Samuel Paty at the hands of radical Islamists after he showed “cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.”
Against this grim backdrop, however, is a glimmer of hope. From the U.S. Department of Education to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, this past week has seen two major victories for free speech in the Western world.
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