{"id":217617,"date":"2026-04-05T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217617"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:47:59","slug":"is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217617","title":{"rendered":"Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClearMedia Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach, Florida. RealClear, whose brands include its flagship RealClearPolitics website, is best known as a content and polling aggregator, and as an advocate of political and ideological diversity. Pursuant to that mission&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/02\/13\/is_free_speech_really_the_highest_value_153834.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClearMedia Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217617-is-free-speech-really-the-highest-value.jpeg",90,60,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}