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It does not seem to him [a liberal] an anomaly that his own nation's communication industry should on a massive scale print books, produce plays and movies, present the television scripts of those who hate his nation and his civilization, and seek, often avowedly, the destruction of both.

Liberalism holds that there is no such thing as objective truth; or, if in some abstract sense there may be objective truth, that it is impossible for us to be sure that we know it. That theory is the ultimate justification for universal free speech and democracy: no man has the right to believe that his truth has any priority in the marketplace over another man's.