Olivia Pierson: RCR - Free Speech is not a Suicide Pact

As a New Zealand writer who has defended freedom of speech for many years, I have always treated it as an essential cornerstone of a free society. I have never regarded it as a context-less absolute that forces private broadcasters to give regular, unchallenged platforms to ideas that attack the very civilisation free speech depends on.

George Smith: Ayn Rand Predicted an American Slide toward Fascism

In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme - collectivism.” 

Rand would later expand on this insight in various articles, most notably in two of her lectures at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston: “The Fascist New Frontier” (Dec. 16, 1962, published as a booklet by the Nathaniel Branden Institute in 1963); and “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus” (April 18, 1965, published as Chapter 20 in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal [CUI] by New American Library in 1967).