Joseph Blocher

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Sche̲nberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky are unquestionably shielded by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting the freedom of speech, even though none involves what we typically think of as speechthe use of words to convey meaning....