Richard Epstein The Power Of Thought Summary

In the old days, protesting was not permitted. Still to this day, around the world, free speech is not a right offered by each nation. In the U.S.A., however, the government nearly allows for anything to be said. Amongst every given situation, everything has it’s limits. Chanting while protesting are covered in the first amendment under free speech, however, when developing to violence and destruction, that's when that right becomes unquestionably lost. Lawyer and writer, Richard Epstein in his persuasive article, “The Power of the Thought…” is based on two cases; a university in California named Berkeley and Middlebury College where students disagreed with a provided speaker and spoke in opposition. Both cases ended up breaking their right of free speech. Epstein is trying to extend his knowledge of free speech to colleges and universities that lack intellectual …show more content…
He compares and contrasts, uses scholar language, and adopts a frustrated and disappointed tone in order to motivate schoolings to urgently allow for intellectual diversity. Epstein differentiates two incidents throughout his article. He aims to extend his knowledge of free speech to others that abuse their rights. At the beginning of the article, he acknowledges “one critical difference” between both cases. Pointing out the difference that one case was in the public and the other in a private setting really HELPS in his explanation how the right of free speech vanishes in certain circumstances. How there are “same limitations… on all forms of human behavior”. Students in colleges, however are not grasping this concept. They overuse free speech and they say whatever they want in any place at any time, but this must be stopped. . Although colleges do attempt to bring