Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other

Categories: Law, Politics & Social Sciences

Civil-liberties journalist Nat Hentoff collects case after case of Americans trying to silence speech they dislike, from book removals in school libraries to campus speech codes and protests against unpopular speakers. He shows that the urge to censor crosses party lines, with conservatives and liberals each defending free expression only for their own side. Hentoff argues that the First Amendment protects nothing unless it protects the speech we hate.

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• David Sacks: “I do very much see myself in that mold of somebody like Hentoff. He wrote a book called Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee.”