Give the world the First Amendment. That is the typically provocative and stimulating argument made by Sam Harris, one of the world’s leading public intellectuals, in the pages of this newspaper today.
Ever since he broke into the world’s consciousness in 2007 as part of the New Atheists (or, as they were more excitingly known, the Four Horsemen) alongside Richard Dawkins, the philosopher Daniel Dennett and the late Christopher Hitchens, Harris has been on the front lines of the battle of ideas.
