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Saving free speech... from itself
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Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself sets the tone for the fractious discussion of how the First Amendment should be interpreted in today's society and how the free speech aspect of it should not b...
Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself sets the tone for the fractious discussion of how the First Amendment should be interpreted in today's society and how the free speech aspect of it should not be weaponized by individuals and groups whose agenda includes causing harm to innocent people. It includes a Foreword by Bret Stephens, the well-known columnist of the New York Times.
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- Creator
- Thane Rosenbaum ; foreword by Bret Stephens
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- English
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- Bedford, New York : Fig Tree Books LLC, [2020]
- ©2020
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- xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1941493262, 9781941493267
- OCLC
- on1125357053
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-305).
- Free speech reconsidered -- American outliers : speech as robust right -- Silenced speech on the American college campus -- The general public, and keeping your mouth shut -- Free speech may be less American than football -- Where it is permissible to say : speak no more -- What is the marketplace of ideas? -- Is everything that spills from the mouth of a speaker an idea? -- An idea by any other name -- A marketplace of ideas for the dumbfounded -- What is so bad about the regulation of speech? -- Speech that is non-speech -- Dignity by right -- Europe's focus on privacy and dignity without sacrificing speech -- Not everything should be open for debate -- Hate leads to violence -- Where dignity is already recognized : a right to privacy and dignity -- The justices for whom dignity always mattered -- Incivility and its discontents -- The social contract and human dignity -- Tort law to the rescue of dignity -- Some words, by "their very utterance," lose their free speech protections -- "Sticks and stones" are not the only cause of serious harm -- Enter science : putting the microscope to wounding words -- The physical and the emotional : one and the same in the human brain -- First and second amendment crazies -- What brain scans show and what some legal decisions say -- The mind's recall of pain -- The consequences of free speech taken seriously -- The Chaplinsky list and a harm-based analysis -- And then the Supreme Court got even more free speech crazy -- Other cases where the Supreme Court privileged speech over pain -- When Nazis in the United States were shown the respect they surely did not deserve -- Emotional distress claims caused by speech that prevailed -- When cartoons are not funny but should still constitute permissible speech -- Hate speech is a hate crime -- The alternative universe of the college campus -- the right to make a bomb -- Tolerating skid marks on the slippery slope