Just because columnist Jacob Sullum calls his magazine Reason doesn’t mean everything he says is reasonable. His recent column is evidence (“Time to extinguish the claim that you can’t yell ‘fire in a crowded theater’ ” — Aug. 30).
The police conduct in the Louisiana case he cited about a man who was arrested for a Facebook post is indeed outrageous, and legal action in its wake is entirely appropriate. But it is unreasonable to suggest it somehow invalidates the concept that freedom of speech has its limits.
