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There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech! Stanley Fish, Professor of Law at the Cardozo School of Law and author of many books, including the landmark study There is No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too; Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom; How to Write a Sentence, and How to Read One, and a forthcoming book on the First Amendment's role in our culture called The First, makes the case that there isn't such a thing as free speech—at least not in an absolutist sense. And universities, among other institutions, have always regulated it. In fact, as Fish makes clear in plain and simple terms, without regulating the idea of speech makes no sense at all -- for then we would not be able to distinguish between meaningful expressions and gibberish. Fish is one of the leading voices in the American speech debates of the last three decades, and never shy to take a stand.