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5 Great Books on Free Speech, Recommended by Professor and Author Timothy Garton Ash

5 Great Books on Free Speech, Recommended by Professor and Author Timothy Garton Ash | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The best books on free speech, as recommended by author and academic Timothy Garton Ash.
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Author of 'Free Speech: Ten Principles for A Connected World,' Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, where he is also director of Free Speech Debate, a global research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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Essay: 'Why We Must Still Defend Free Speech' by David Cole, Professor in Law and Public Policy

Essay: 'Why We Must Still Defend Free Speech' by David Cole, Professor in Law and Public Policy | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Does the First Amendment need a rewrite in the era of Donald Trump? Should the rise of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups lead us to cut back the protection afforded to speech that expresses hatred and advocates violence, or otherwise undermines equality? If free speech exacerbates inequality, why doesn’t equality, also protected by the Constitution, take precedence?
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The essayist David Cole is the National Legal Director of the ACLU and the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. You can follow him on Twitter @DavidColeACLU.
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