Europe’s Free-Speech Problem
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915/
Now Europe and the United States are diverging. Never mind enduring disagreements about how to treat Nazis and other would-be totalitarians. Europe today, in both its individual countries and its shared continental governance, is criminalizing more and more speech that doesn’t come close to American thresholds for incitement or harassment.