HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship

233 Pages·2018·6.824 MB·English

by  Nadine Strossen

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR HATE
“One of life’s hardest tasks is to tell natural allies they are wrong.
Nadine Strossen is clear in a time of confusion, consistent in an era
of hypocrisy, and brave in an environment of intimidation. Her book
is a fitting capstone in a career in defense of our civil liberties.”
— , President,
Mitchell Daniels
Purdue University, and former Governor of Indiana
“Strossen has accomplished something remarkable in this slim
book—she has ventured into a complex and heavily examined field
and produced a book that is original, insightful, and clear-headed.
My guess: this book will become the go-to work in the field.”
— , Harold S. Shefelman Scholar,
Ronald Collins
University of Washington School of Law, and
Publisher of First Amendment News
“Well-intentioned, but misguided, people today are clamoring
for what amounts to censorship of speech they deem to be hate-
ful. Nadine Strossen explains why the criminalization of advocacy,
even advocacy of hateful ideas, imperils honorable freedoms. What’s
more, she provides a robust defense of a piece of old-fashioned, but
oft-forgotten, wisdom: The safest—and most effective—way to fight
bad ideas is not by limiting the right to free speech, but by exercising
that right to counter them.”
— , McCormick
Robert P. George
Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

HATE
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Why the Constitution Can’t End the
Battle over Guns Cosmic Constitutional Theory
Mark V. Tushnet Why Americans Are Losing Their
Inalienable Right to Self- Governance
Unfinished Business J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Racial Equality in American History
Michael J. Klarman More Essential Than Ever
The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty
Supreme Neglect First Century
How to Revive Constitutional Stephen J. Schulhofer
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Louis Michael Seidman
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Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth The Twilight of Human Rights Law
Amendment After 9/ 11 Eric A. Posner
Alan M. Dershowitz
Constitutional Personae
The Invisible Constitution Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists,
Laurence H. Tribe and Mutes
Cass R. Sunstein
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide- Open
A Free Press for a New Century The Future of Foreign Intelligence
Lee C. Bollinger Privacy and Surveillance in a
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Sexual Orientation and
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Martha C. Nussbaum
I N A L I E N A B L E R I G H T S S E R I E S
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SERIES EDITOR
Geoffrey R. Stone
Lee C. Bollinger Goodwin Liu
President Professor of Law
Columbia University University of California at Berkeley
School of Law
Alan M. Dershowitz
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Michael W. McConnell
Harvard Law School Richard and Frances Mallery
Professor of Law
Laura K. Donohue Stanford Law School
Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service
Richard A. Epstein Professor, Philosophy, Law, Divinity,
Laurence A. Tisch Professor South Asian Studies
of Law The University of Chicago
New York University School
of Law Eric A. Posner
Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service
Pamela S. Karlan Professor of Law
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery University of Chicago Law School
Professor of Public Interest Law
Stanford Law School Richard A. Posner
Judge
Alexander Keyssar U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of Circuit
History and Social Policy
JFK School of Government, Harvard Jack N. Rakove
University William Robertson Coe Professor of
History and American Studies
Michael J. Klarman Stanford University
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and
History Christopher H. Schroeder
Harvard Law School Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Larry D. Kramer
Richard E. Lang Professor of Law Stephen J. Schulhofer
and Dean Robert B. McKay Professor of Law
Stanford Law School New York University School of Law
Lawrence Lessig Louis Michael Seidman
Edmund J. Safra Professor of Law Carmack Waterhouse Professor of
Harvard Law School Constitutional Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Geoffrey R. Stone Laurence H. Tribe
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Carl M. Loeb University
Professor Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School Harvard Law School
David A. Strauss Mark V. Tushnet
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service William Nelson Cromwell
Professor of Law Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School Harvard Law School
Kathleen M. Sullivan J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law Judge
Stanford Law School U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit
Cass R. Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor Kenji Yoshino
Harvard Law School Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of
Constitutional Law
New York University School of Law
Geoffrey Stone and Oxford University Press gratefully acknowledge the interest
and support of the following organizations in the Inalienable Rights series: The ALA;
The Chicago Humanities Festival; The American Bar Association; The National
Constitution Center; The National Archives
HATE
Why We Should Resist It with Free
Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen
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