The first freedom
Without free speech, we don't have freedom to think - much less a functioning democracy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this truth. Why don't modern Democrats?
Eighty-two years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed to rouse the United States to fight for freedom.
Hitler had spread his tentacles across Europe. Japan was waging a vicious war in China. But after the brutality of the First World War, many Americans remained suspicious of the necessity of American involvement in another overseas conflict.
So in the f…
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