 What does Fiss mean by Irony?
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. This is what Fiss means by the "irony" in his title: that true freedom of speech for all requires suppressing the speech of some. If Fiss had addressed the subject of free speech in this spirit, as an irony, he would undoubtedly have had some interesting things to say, for he is a learned and temperate writer. Fiss does not avoid it. Fiss' analyses of specific cases are presented against a lightly sketched historical argument.
 That true freedom of speech calls for the silencing of a few groups.
 That true freedom of speech calls for the silencing of a few groups.  That true freedom of speech calls for the silencing of unorthodox artists, as their work so often offends on a large scale and does not bode positively for the groups the artist hopes to represents.  That true freedom of speech depends on the silencing of the state in free speech trials.  That true freedom of speech calls for an inspection of the pornography market.