This book traces the controversy over the issue of free speech, from the Colonial period to the present, in a variety of mediums.
(Williams 1973:97–8)2 The relevant question is not, 'Should George take the job?' (Williams's example is not a challenge to come down on one side or the other, nor to offer George any kind of advice.) Rather, the point is to leave us in ...
Consider, for example, the question of whether Tom Watson was responsible for the lynching of Leo Frank. Frank was a northern Jewish industrialist accused (and eventually convicted) of the brutal murder of a fourteen year old Atlanta ...
The point is that once inside the booth you have complete privacy. Under the system you are at liberty to enter an unoccupied booth whenever you like and express any opinion you want in any tone of voice. You can mutter imprecations or ...
Blasi , Vince . " Prior Restraints on Demonstrations , " Michi - gan Law Review 68 ( August , 1970 ) , 1481-1574 . Boccarosse , Ralph N. ' ' Lloyd Corporation v . Tanner : Expression of First Amendment Rights in the Privately owned ...
In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles. Free speech is the marrow of democracy.
What is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly.
Warren, Samuel D., and Brandeis, Louis D. 1890: 'The Right to Privacy'. Harvard Law Review, vol. 4, no. 5, 193–220. doi:10.2307/1321160. Watson, Burton. ... Princeton: Princeton University Press. Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea.
Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech.
This introduction to free speech offers a thought-provoking guide to questions concerning how important free speech is and whether it should be defended at all costs.
This is the perfect volume for anyone - student, general reader, or scholar - looking for an accessible overview of this critical topic.
A Penguin Classic With the Penguin Liberty series by Penguin Classics, we look to the U.S. Constitution’s text and values, as well as to American history and some of the country’s most important thinkers, to discover the best ...
This book will be essential for anyone wishing to understand the contemporary significance and philosophical roots of free speech, and how it relates to debates about democracy, feminism and multiculturalism.
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Women's Health Center22 involved a court order that created a thirty-six-foot “buffer zone” around the front of a clinic, ... zones,” which prohibited demonstrations within fifteen feet of clinic entrances, parking lots, and driveways, ...
This introduction to free speech offers a thought-provoking guide to questions concerning how important free speech is and whether it should be defended at all costs.
Free speech is being threatened, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism. This is a call to gird up our loins and laptops to fight the new free speech wars.
In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the long, contested history of a powerful idea, beginning with its origins in the intellectual ferment of classical Athens, where it enabled the development of the world's first democracy.
Without oversimplifying the complexities of free speech law, the book's lively question-and-answer format summarizes this law in an understandable, interesting, and memorable fashion.