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    ANIMAL TRACKS

    Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes
    BY RICHARD BROOKHISER

    Seventy-five years ago, the February 21, 1943, edition of the Saturday Evening Post had as its cover Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” which the artist based on a Vermont town meeting at which Rockwell had seen a yeoman rise in lonely dissent and get a respectful hearing

    This spring the subject of the First Amendment got a brisk workout from TV comics. Roseanne Barr tweeted a late-night blast at former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” The following week, Samantha Bee described first daughter Ivanka Trump on-air as a “feckless [rhymes with runt, though much more hostile].” Bee rode out a tornado of

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