One-line summary: Insights on freedom of speech: necessary today
Nat Hentoff was a prominent liberal in the 1960s, writing mainly for the Village Voice. In this book he supports the right of anyone, children included, to express his views and to refuse to support, even to be exposed to, opposing views.
I have read only the first two chapters. The book is great for these alone. (Great but not perfect: for example, Hentoff is weak on the distinction between governmental and private action.) This book is particularly relevant today, when assaults on freedom of speech come from intellectual descendants of those who used to support it – or at least said they supported it.
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