This book is frustrating: too glib in some parts, too long in others (did we really need a discussion of school vouchers?). More than anything, I wanted more nuance. I often come down on the side of the authors, but their interpretations are too simplistic. That said, the sheer volume of nonsense tabulated in this book raises important questions, even if this book can’t or won’t intelligently answer them. A richer book might have included more of the cancelled speech, especially where it’s literary or artistic or academic. Somewhere between the unfocused, imprecise rant of this book and Nossel’s Dare to Speak (which I’ve also been dipping into) is the book on free speech given our current discourse that I want to read; Nossel’s book is better, but neither entirely satisfies.