Patrick Deneen Blogs: Artists and the Right to Offend

January 4, 2011

Is a society required to grant its artists the right to offend? In a liberal democracy, doubtless. But is such a society also required to acquiesce to the offense without objection, even when its culture, its sensibilities, even its most sacred objects are treated with disrespect, offense or rebuke?

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