Review of: "Free Speech Regimes and Democratic Vehemence"
Michael F. Mascolo · 2023
Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.It is somewhat difficult to respond to this paper -particularly in the form of a review.This is because this is one of those few papers that one reviews that one finds to stand so well alone.I'm delighted to have read this paper.This paper pursues the thesis that in the current political climate -especially in liberal democracies, a conflict has emerged between two ways of engaging in political discourse.These include processes based on "procedural rights" (PR)and "victim's rights" (VR).Procedural rights are based upon the valuing the right to discourse and free speech as process