The sanctity of free speech It has been, by all accounts, a wild week on the free speech front, one of those weeks where the headlines came right at us like a late-night bar brawl. I’m not really sure who came out on top. There was yet another assassination attempt on the president—the third in less than two years—with suspicious minds pointing at progressive hate speech as the trigger finger (or Trump’s own hyperbolic speech, depending upon your point of view).