Modern Power and Free Speech explores the complicated relationship between the First Amendment and culturally disempowered groups within the United States. By f

“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free spe

A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to thei

The rights to free speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition are among the most important in a democracy. Without freedom to express one's ideas, democrat

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell