Sometimes someone articulates the principles of free inquiry and freedom of speech with such clarity and honesty that you realize why the first amendment is so important, and why it applies as much to the loathsome Westboro Baptist Church as to Lantern Books. Here is the novelist Philip Pullman speaking at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford University about his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. His defense is as good a reason why I'm in the business of publishing as any.