Frederick Schauer dedicated his life to challenging accepted views on free speech, emphasizing the need to scrutinize the balance between freedom and competing interests like public order.
In his 1982 book, Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry, Schauer argued that First Amendment protections sometimes subjugate other vital interests, such as morality and national security.
He noted that while U.S. free speech provisions are more expansive than those in other democracies, this does not automatically validate their superiority or absoluteness.
Schauer believed that genuine understanding comes from questioning established knowledge, stating, 'If the answers turn out to reject the received wisdom, then something has been added to the existing knowledge.'
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