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The article focuses on claim that regulating anti-speech acts chills political speech and Courts that use free speech doctrine to shield those who deliberately or recklessly disseminate demonstrably false statements in pursuit of fraudulent electoral or commercial gain. It mentions Freedom of thought and expression and the continued integrity of the electoral process are served (not hindered) by prudent regulation of anti-speech acts.

The "affective turn" presents a number of important challenges to law and the humanities. One such challenge concerns our ability to resist the temptation to romanticize the inhuman. Theorists from Nietzsche to Massumi have been so taken by the emancipatory promise of affective intensity that they risk relinquishing responsibility for freedom's necessary social, political, and legal pre-conditions. Our responsibility for narrative construction and narrative choice carries with it an ethical imperative to understand the orchestration of affect. Downplaying the importance of reflective consciousness (including our capacity for prudent judgment) in favor of spontaneous affective events threatens to rob freedom of its meaning and open democratic societies to grave risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the relation between idea of law and the poetic imagination. Topics discussed include ways in which law sits between the social sciences and the humanities; scientific rationality and utilitarian calculation in law; poetic imagination of law; and work of Wallace Stevens, American poet of the twentieth century.