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SEN. Dick Durbin called Bradley Smith a “nihilist.” Commentators compared him to David Duke and the Unabomber. And then-Vice President A1 Gore opposed his boss’s nomination of Smith to the Federal Election Commission because “the last thing we need is an FEC commissioner who publicly questions not only the constitutionality of proposed [campaign-finance] reforms, but also the constitutionality of current limitations.”

But question he does. Smith passed the Senate’s grilling and today serves as one of six FEC commissioners. In Unfree Speech, he argues that “almost everything the American people know, or think they know, about campaign finance is wrong.”

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SEN. Dick Durbin called Bradley Smith a “nihilist.” Commentators compared him to David Duke and the Unabomber. And then-Vice President A1 Gore opposed his boss’s nomination of Smith to the Federal Election Commission because “the last thing we need is an FEC commissioner who publicly questions not only the constitutionality of proposed [campaign-finance] reforms, but also the constitutionality of current limitations.”

But question he does. Smith passed the Senate’s grilling and today serves as one of six FEC commissioners. In Unfree Speech, he argues that “almost everything the American people know, or think they know, about campaign finance is wrong.”