Walter Block v. New York Times Company

EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

In 2014, the New York Times published an article by Sam Tanenhaus and Jim Rutenberg titled “Rand Paul’s Mixed Inheritance.” That article examines at length U.S. Senator Rand Paul, focusing on his political philosophy, libertarianism. This case arose because the article briefly quotes Walter Block, an economics professor at Loyola University New Orleans, at two points. The first quotation appears in the following sentence:

One economist, while faulting slavery because it was involuntary, suggested in an interview that the daily life of the enslaved was “not so…