 By the time "Unfree Speech" was published, both Smith and his campaign finance scholarship had become something of a Rorschach test for attitudes about campaign finance.The book met with near universal praise among opponents of regulation, such as columnist George Will, who called it "the Year's most important book on governance," and condemnation from supporters of regulation, with journalist Eliza Newlin Carney lambasting it as "facile and boggling.