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The proliferation of pornography and hate speech in contemporary democratic cultures threatens the liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas, unhampered by state regulation of speech. Pornographic and hate speech, because it threatens to silence the competing speech of women and minorities, calls into question the liberal orthodoxies of state neutrality about the content of speech, as well as the traditional primacy of the value of liberty over the value of equality. By drawing on a broad range of philosophical traditions - from classical and contemporary liberalism, to Continental philosophy, speech act theory, critical race theory, feminism, and philosophy of law. The Cost of Free Speech argues that how courts resolve freedom of expression cases involving pornography or hate speech reveals more about the power of state speech to potentially oppress women and minorities than it does about the power of pornography and hate speech themselves. Once the liberal state becomes aware of the power of its own speech, the values of neutrality and liberty recede and the value of equality emerges as the true goal of liberalism.

Introduction -- Part I - The Dual Argument (1920 - 1947): The Socialist Calculation Debates -- The Lippmann Colloquium -- The Economic Consequences -- Part II - The First Meeting (1947): An Army of Fighters for Freedom -- Using the State -- A New Europe -- The Second Week -- Conclusions: What Is Neoliberalism?.

A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers, including John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, vigorously supported the conquest of non-European peop

Thomas Hobbes and the perils of pluralism -- John Locke, sectarianism, and toleration -- Reappraising the Scottish moralists and civil society -- Edmund Burke's defense of civil society -- John Stuart Mill and the ambivalence of liberal pluralism -- Alexis de Tocqueville and the perils of pluralism revisited -- Michael Oakeshott and the transformational (im)possibilities of the liberal state -- F. A. Hayek and the limits of liberal constitutionalism -- Conclusion: Liberal neutrality, purposive community, and the logic of contemporary pluralism.