“To be silenced is to be kept from being heard. My goal in this essay is to explore how such a silencing - such a keeping from being heard - is accomplished not in the name of the outright suppression of speech, but in the name of its liberalization. In American public spaces, I will argue, the contemporary silencing of dissenting speech is more and more accomplished through a language, and an accompanying set of regulations, that purportedly serves to protect the very rights that are being suppressed…”