Abstract
For nearly seventy-five years, the “marketplace of ideas” has been regarded as the central metaphor of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s dissent in Abrams v. United States and of free speech theory in general. No other image has so captured the public imagination or generated such fierce academic argument. But there is another metaphor in Holmes’s dissent that may offer a better framework for understanding his view of free speech – the metaphor of the experiment. In this symposium essay marking the centenary of Abrams, I explore the implications of the experiment metaphor, explaining what Holmes might have meant by it and how it might complement and improve upon the metaphor of the market.
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