Why do you say, “Freedom is more robust than other notions” when the New York Times publishes https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html and the LA Times publishes http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-berkeley-free-speech-20170605-story.html — both of these newspapers are seeking ways to limit speech, trying to get around the rules that the Supreme Court reaffirmed in https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.5117014d002a . The sequence is LA Times, Supreme Court disapproves, New York Times, but the push is on.

What is it about a “freedom” or “right” that is more robust? Canadians insist that they have freedom of speech, but, in practice, they don’t (see the Jordan Peterson brouhaha).