<![CDATA[Many of us have heard the tune "Scotland the Brave." It is the kind of tune, as Irving Berlin said of another song, that is "so natural that you want to go to war." Alas, in recent years, Scotland, like virtually every other Western country, including the United States, has not been brave when it comes to free speech. In many ways, free speech has made cowards of us all, the first rotten pillar in a wider cultural collapse. ]]>