If you enjoyed our episode on "Free Speech" and are interested in learning more about the topic, we would like to suggest some of the following readings (FYI – we do not necessarily endorse the positions advanced in the readings or videos we suggest):
Freedom of Speech: Crash Course Government and Politics #25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeeq0qaEaLw
ContraPoints: Does the Left Hate Free Speech? (Explicit):
1. Alexander, L. Is There a Right to Freedom of Expression? (Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law, 2005).
2. Atkins, R. & S. Mintcheva (eds.), Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (New York: New Press, 2006).
3. Baker, C. Edwin. Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
4. Bollinger, L. The Tolerant Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
5. Boyle, K. “Hate Speech: The United States Versus the Rest of the World?” Maine Law Review, 53(2), 2001, pp. 487–502.
6. Braun, S. Democracy off Balance: Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).
7. Brison, S. “The Autonomy Defense of Free Speech,” Ethics, 1998, 108(2), pp. 312–339.
8. Byrd, C. Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship (Atlanta: Georgia State University Press, 2006).
9. Butler, J. Excitable Speech: A Politics of Performance (London: Routledge, 1996).
10. Cohen-Almagor, R. Speech, Media and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression: Critical Studies on Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, and the Public’s Right to Know (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
11. —The Scope of Tolerance: Studies on the Cost of Free Expression and Freedom of the Press, (London: Routledge).
12. Fish, S. There's No Such Thing as Free Speech…and it's a good thing too (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
13. Garton Ash, T. Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
14. Gates, H.L. Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (New York: New York University Press, 1995).
15. Golding, Martin P. Free Speech on Campus (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
16. Kateb, G. “The Freedom of Worthless and Harmful Speech,” in Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar. Bernard Yack (ed.) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
17. Kramer, M. “Why Freedoms Do Not Exist by Degrees,” in Political Studies, 2002, 50(3): 230–243.
18. Lawrence, III., Charles R. “If He Hollers, Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus,” Duke Law Journal 3 (1990).
19. Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: Longman, Roberts, & Co., 1869.
20. Parekh, B. “Is There a Case for Banning Hate Speech?”, in M. Herz & P. Molnar, P., The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
21. Scoccia, D. “Can Liberals Support a Ban on Violent Pornography?” Ethics, 1996, 106(4): 776–799.
22. Strum, P. When the Nazis came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate (Lawrence: Kansas University Press, 1999).
23. Unterreiner, Miles. “Limiting Free Speech” in Exploring Moral Problems: An Introductory Anthology, Steven M. Cahn & Andrew T. Forcehimes (eds) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
24. van Mill, David, “Freedom of Speech”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/freedom-speech/>.
25. Waldron, J. The Harm in Hate Speech (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).
26. Walker, S. Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994).