'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'This slogan,
attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find …

Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very
different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow …

Free Speech is a philosophical treatment of a topic which is of immense importance to all of
us. Writing with great clarity, wit, and genuine concern, Alan Haworth situates the main …

LATE LAST AUTUMN my fellow Syndics of the Harvard Univer-sity Press asked me to
replace my book on Freedom of Speech, which was published in 1920 and has long been …

The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in
crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot …

In authoritarian states, the discourse on freedom of speech, conducted by those opposed to
non-democratic governments, focuses on the core aspects of this freedom: on a right to …

A first-person account of the fight to preserve First Amendment rights in the digital age.
Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom …

How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss
suggests, is where the First Amendment comes in. In this book, a marvel of conciseness and …

From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher
learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over …