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Rose Accepts Milton Friedman Prize Flemming Rose (l.), Danish journalist and author of ‘The Tyranny of Silence,’ receives the 2016 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from former ACLU president Nadine Strossen on May 25 at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. The $250,000 award, given bi-annually by the Cato Institute, is presented every other year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advance human freedom. Credit: Brendan O’Hara

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“We need a noninstrumental or nonutilitarian argument for free speech. Freedom of speech is a good in and of itself. It has intrinsic value.”
From remarks by Danish journalist Flemming Rose upon receiving the Cato Institute’s Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty…”
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