America turns 250 this year, and the timing couldn’t be more revealing. As the UK arrests people over so-called “hate incidents”—aka Facebook posts—and the EU tightens the screws on Elon Musk and X/Twitter under the “Digital Services Act,” it’s becoming clear that free speech is one of the last truly American rights. I’m breaking down the risk of European authoritarianism bleeding into the United States, Woodrow Wilson’s attempts to transform the our country into a progressive “utopia,” and why the First and Second Amendments offer the most thorough protection for freedom ever devised in human history.