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The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy

It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.

First published in The Atlantic on September 26, 2025.

by Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic
October 16, 2025 | reading time: 4 Min.

The Trump administration’s systemic attack on free speech is hard to defend. The easier move for the president’s apologists is to attack critics for their hypocrisy.

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