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  • Free Speech and Koch Money

    Manufacturing a Campus Culture War

    by Ralph Wilson, Isaac Kamola ...
    In recent years hundreds of high-profile ‘free speech’ incidents have rocked US college campuses. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academy’s intolerance towards conservative views.But this response is not the spontaneous outrage ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What Is Free Speech?

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    Narrated by Matthew Spencer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 3 min

    Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create political unrest. Given the obvious dangers of outspokenness, regulating speech and print was universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government. Only in the early 1700s did this old way begin to break down. In a brief span of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Free Speech in the Digital Age

    Edited by Susan J. Brison, Katharine Gelber ...
    This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the Internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of government and private organizations in monitoring and regulating the digital world, give rise to new ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The free speech wars

    How did we get here and why does it matter?

    Edited by Charlotte Lydia Riley ...
    Who gets to exercise free speech, and what happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced? Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book explores the contemporary free speech wars to try to understand how this issue has become increasingly charged. It asks how the spaces and structures of 'speech' – mass media, the lecture theatre, the public event, the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Free Speech

    by Peter Ives ...
    Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted. Prominent commentators have built massive platforms around claims that their right to free speech is being undermined. Critics of free speech ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Paradoxes of Free Speech

    Challenges and Controversies in Contemporary India

    Edited by Pallavi Devi, Alankar Kaushik ...
    This book explores the enduring tensions between free expression and regulation in an era of disinformation, surveillance, and digital monopolies. It brings together leading legal scholars, journalists, and media experts to examine the normative justifications for free speech, its role in democracy, personal autonomy, and knowledge production, while addressing its evolving challenges.The book ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Future of Free Speech

    Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom

    by Jacob Mchangama, Jeff Kosseff ...
    An incisive examination of free speech's global decline and a framework for preserving expression in democratic societies.The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege. Once celebrated as a cornerstone of democratic societies, free expression is now met with growing suspicion and retaliation across the globe. Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff present a ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Taming of Free Speech

    America’s Civil Liberties Compromise

    by Laura Weinrib ...
    In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for protecting freedom of speech. In this strikingly original history, Laura Weinrib illustrates how a ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Hate Speech and Free Speech

    Examining the Facts

    by Lori Cox Han ...
    Series series Contemporary Debates
    All across America arguments are raging over the spread of hate speech, constitutional limitations on free speech, intellectual freedom, and government censorship.These clashes are playing out in living rooms, courtrooms, and legislative chambers in every state in the union and they pose important questions about the future societal and political health of the USA.Where does free speech end and ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • No Free Speech for Fascists

    Exploring ‘No Platform’ in History, Law and Politics

    by David Renton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing tradition of support for free speech.The book shows how no platform was ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Free Speech Handbook

    A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections

    by Ian Rosenberg ...
    Series series World Citizen Comics
    In this volume of the World Citizen Comics series, Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro create a practical framework for understanding and appreciating the First Amendment.Freedom of speech is fiercely defended in America and has been since the First Amendment was written. But how does it work, and what laws shape it? Drawing on parallels between ten seminal Supreme Court cases and current events, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Free Speech Generation

    The Civil Libertarians Who Saved the First Amendment and Transformed America

    by Nico Perrino ...
    The untold story of the men and women who transformed America’s First Amendment from an unfulfilled promise into the world’s strongest protection for free speech.Today, free speech is among America’s most powerful values. But for most of the nation’s history, the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech did little to protect those who challenged power or offended public morals. A newspaper ... Read more

    $24.64 CAD

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