Is Hate Speech Like A Greenhouse Gas?

Let's work through a New York Times analogy

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Earlier this week, New York Magazine ran my response to a column in the New York Times by Andrew Marantz arguing that things are so dire out there in the world that we need to rethink our free-speech values (“Free Speech Is Killing Us,” went the headline). It will not surprise you to hear that I found …