The Defense of Satire Is the Defense of Free Expression

In response to the terrorist attacks on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Business Insider has run a selection of sixteen of the magazine’s most provocative covers [http://www.businessinsider.com/16-bold-covers-from-the-satirical-paris-magazine-that-was-attacked-today-2015-1?op=1]. The television coverage of the terrorist attack has been quite uniform in not showing the materials that led to the attack on the magazine’s offices,…