Wright, R. George2020-09-152020-09-15199125 University of Richmond Law Review 475https://hdl.handle.net/1805/23839This essay focuses on one element of an important, unresolved question in free speech law. The broader unresolved question concerns how freedom of speech, as a legal and social institution, operates best or most efficiently. Our society has often debated how an economy, as a legal and social institution, functions best. On this analogous question, we have generally concluded that the national economy ought to manifest a mixture of at least minimally voluntary marketplace exchanges' and appropriate forms of government regulation.en-USArticle