ANIMAL TRACKS
Seventy-five years ago, the February 21, 1943, edition of the Saturday Evening Post had as its cover Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” which the artist based on a Vermont town meeting at which Rockwell had seen a yeoman rise in lonely dissent and get a respectful hearing
This spring the subject of the First Amendment got a brisk workout from TV comics. Roseanne Barr tweeted a late-night blast at former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” The following week, Samantha Bee described first daughter Ivanka Trump on-air as a “feckless [rhymes with runt, though much more hostile].” Bee rode out a tornado of
