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Opinion: Vance delivers a historic defense of free speech in Europe

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Frida Ghitis : Vice President J.D. Vance challenged European leaders over attacks on free speech in the West .

She says he called allies to account not for the growing threat from Russia or China , but from themselves.

Ghitis says it was truly Churchillian — no less than the famous Iron Curtain speech in which Churchill dared the West to confront the existential dangers of communism.

Jonathan Turley : The Vice President's defense of free speech is considered a breathtaking outrage.

In the midst of this crackdown, Vance spoke with a quintessentially American voice, Turley says.

He says the appetite for censorship is now insatiable, and free speech in a free fall.

Turley calls Vance 's speech a true elegy — part lament and part liberating.