Source: The Daily Economy
by Julian Adorney
“Investor and podcaster Eric Weinstein recently argued that free speech is overrated. While supporting the idea of the First Amendment, he said that free speech alone was insufficient to combat bad ideas. As he put it, ‘This whole concept of the marketplace of ideas doesn’t actually work because marketplaces have market failures and very fit dangerous ideas can’t be simply rebutted by better ideas.’ He called the notion that good ideas consistently beat out bad ideas in the marketplace of ideas a ‘liberal fantasy.’ To truly drive bad ideas out of the public square, he says, we need to get back to ‘shunning’ people with bad ideas. There are two big problems with the notion of shunning people who hold the wrong ideas.” (05/26/25)