Free speech for me--but not for thee : how the American left and right relentlessly censor each other / Nat Hentoff.
For years now, Nat Hentoff has been the best-known lay guardian of the magnificent spirit and letter of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. His principled advocacy of free expression for all seems to be needed more than ever today, at a time of appalling assaults on express...
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New York :
HarperCollins Publishers,
[1992]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The right to read a book with "niggers" in it
- The right not to read a book with whores in it
- The thought police, with the very best of intentions
- The education of Yale in the glories of free speech
- The pall of orthodoxy on the nation's campuses
- Speech wars among women
- Law schools that require loyalty oaths
- Sweet land of liberty
- When decent people try to ban speech for the common good
- The dangerous free marketplace of ideas
- Obscenity, and how it did in Lenny Bruce
- The gospel according to Catharine MacKinnon
- Bringing the First Amendment (live!) into the schools.