 Would Fiss believe that free speech is really "free?"
Shut Up, He Explained Owen Fiss is a professor at the Yale Law School and a highly regarded scholar of constitutional law. The subject of this short book is the present direction of the law governing the freedom of speech. What Professor Fiss has to say about it is worth attending to not merely because of his prominence in the field but because his argument is planted in the common assumptive ground of a lot of contemporary academic thought about the bankruptcy of individualism. The thesis of the book is Fiss', but the wisdom is conventional. Professor Fiss thinks the present direction of First Amendment law is a bad one, and he has an idea about how we might improve it. The short way to put his argument (though it is not quite the way he puts it) is to say that our approach to speech has become increasingly permissive.
 No, because Fiss believes free speech is not granted equally to everyone.
 No, because he believes free speech is an outdated concept.  Yes, but he does propose minor critiques towards the concept of free speech.  No, because Fiss believes free speech is not granted equally to everyone.  Yes, because he has not advocated strongly against issues with free speech.