 What is an example of one flaw that Fiss picks out in contemporary liberals?
But he has, instead, chosen to address the issue as an advocate for specific groups he regards as politically disadvantaged--women, gays, victims of racial-hate speech, the poor (or, at least, the not-rich), and people who are critical of market capitalism--and to design a constitutional theory that will enable those groups to enlist the state in efforts either to suppress speech they dislike or to subsidize speech they do like, without running afoul of the First Amendment. Fiss does not avoid it. The Irony of Free Speech is a discussion of several speech issues: campaign-finance laws, state funding for the arts, pornography, speech codes, and equal time. Fiss' analyses of specific cases are presented against a lightly sketched historical argument.
 Their ideas are contradictory.
 Their ideas are contradictory.  They uphold a double standard for themselves.  They are an uncohesive group.  They strongly reject Fiss' ideas.