Books

James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns, A People's Charter: The Pursuit of Rights in America. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. This work by two historians examines the origins and making of the Bill of Rights, Supreme Court rulings, and laws that constitute the American commitment to citizens' civil liberties.

J. M. Coetzee, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. This collection of essays addresses censorship in contexts ranging from political dissent to pornography.

John Dewey, Freedom and Culture. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. A volume in the "Great Books in Philosophy" series, this book presents Dewey's views on how freedom of inquiry, tolerance of diverse opinions, cultural pluralism, and free speech all contribute to social development.

Owen M. Fiss, The Irony of Free Speech. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1996. This Yale Law School professor argues that certain types of speech—hate speech...