FREE SPEECH AND THE U.S. LIBERTARIAN TRADITION: Another book I’m reading this summer, which I highly recommend, is Ronald Krotoszynski’s The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Professor Krotoszynski, who teaches law at Washington and Lee, examines freedom of speech in four other liberal democracy, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the U.K., and compares our free speech regime with that of those countries. Some may be surprised at how freedom of expression is often (from the U.S. point of view) subordinated to other values, like multiculturalism, personal dignity, and the like in those countries. In fact, when it comes to protecting free speech, the priority it is given by our courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, makes the U.S. something of an outlier in the world. While I think that our courts get it right, Professor Krotoszynski’s book (and comparative studies generally) is a reminder that our libertarian tradition was not inevitable, nor is it the only possiblity for liberal democracies.