Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today 0807044113, 9780807044117

A lawyer, social critic, and columnist at The American Prospect, Wendy Kaminer has said that she likes to think words ha

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Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today
 0807044113, 9780807044117

Table of contents :
Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Author's Note
1. HOMELAND OFFENSE, POST-9/11
Patriotic Dissent
Safety and Freedom
Fear Itself
An Imperial Presidency
Ignorant Bliss
2. NO PLACE TO HIDE
Someone to Watch over Me
Public Lives
3. CAN WE TALK?
Toxic Media
Toxic Media vs. Toxic Censorship
Screen Saviors
Courting Unsafe Speech
Virtual Offensiveness
Grand Old Rag
Freedom's Edge
The Root of All Speech
The War on High Schools
Don't Speak Its Name
Virtual Rape
4. WHOSE GOD IS IT, ANYWAY?
The Joy of Sects
Faith-Based Favoritism
Good News?
The AG Is Their Shepherd
5. CRIMINALLY UNJUST
Ordinary Abuses
Victims vs. Suspects
Pictures at an Execution
Secrets and Lies
6. WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Equal Rights Postponement
Reproductive Emergency
Abortion and Autonomy
7. WOMEN'S WRONGS
Feminists, Puritans, and Statists
Feminists, Racketeers, and the First Amendment
Sexual Congress
Sex and Sensibility
Reproductive Entitlement
Fathers in Court
8. ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM/LEFT
American Heritage
Politics of Identity
Gun Shy
Guilt of Association
9. ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM/RIGHT
When Congress Plays Doctor
Law and Marriage
Gay Rites
Bad Vibes in Alabama
10. HOMELAND OFFENSE, PRE-9/11
Author's Note
Taking Liberties
Games Prosecutors Play
Acknowledgments

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