I've been following Ann Althouse's blog for years. In the last few years I think she's become more conservative, often defending President Trump. I also think she tends to find hidden motives buried in people's statements and in news article, explaining things by those motives rather than the simpler explanation offered by Murphy's Law and taking things at face value.
But the other day she and her son collaborated on a post with which I can agree. Basically they're remembering a past when liberals and the left were vehement in defense of free speech. Mario Savio and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement come to mind, though definitely before her son's time.
All things being equal, I think I generally lean towards free speech (joined the ACLU back in the days of the Nazis marching in Skokie) and am reluctant to see boycotts, even though they are a part of our American heritage (boycotts of British goods led up to the Revolution).
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