International Dialogue
Abstract
George F. Will’s forward to the 2013 edition of this book provides important focus to the problems arising when even one person is “offended” by free speech (xiii). From campus speech codes to legal and social theory aimed at balancing the First Amendment against other rights, Will flatly rejects the liberal movement toward “sensitivity,” “inclusiveness,” “multiculturalism” and other values that attempt to limit expression: What is needed is a book explaining why the usual, and intended, result of this practice is a finding that those objectives… are more worthy than the objective of maintaining a liberal regime of protected expression. What is needed, more than ever, is this book. (xiv) It has been twenty years since the first edition of KINDLY INQUISITORS, yet conflicts persist. The U.S. Supreme Court thirty years before Rauch in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and its progeny pressed ahead.
Recommended Citation
Lipschultz, Jeremy Harris
(2014)
"KINDLY INQUISITORS, The New Attack on Free Thought,"
International Dialogue: Vol. 4, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.ID.4.1.1089
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