It’s the best available medicine against any pandemic of censorship.’įlemming Rose - Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and former editor at Jyllands-Posten Corn-Revere’s insightful exploration and deconstruction of the censor’s mind will equip the reader to see through the rhetorical fog of arguments for shutting down unpopular speech. It’s funny, well written, and is a superb guide to the mechanisms of censorship in the Land of the Free. ‘Somebody once said: ‘Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature sex is a weak second.’ Everybody who wants to get a better understanding of this powerful force of human nature should read Corn-Revere’s brilliant book. Penn Jillette - the taller, louder half of Penn & Teller Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits! Read it.’ This book will prove to you that Bob is as groovy as Superman, without the stupid cape. It’s smart, funny, knowledgeable, honest, freedom-loving, and works for truth, justice, and the American way.
A lot of what’s good about Bob is in this book. I’m not saying I love this book because Bob’s my friend - he’s my friend because I love this book. ‘Bob Corn-Revere is my friend and I love this book. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law Corn-Revere’s engagingly written book provides a powerful defense of freedom of speech and of freedom of thought.’Įrwin Chemerinsky - Dean and Jesse H. And inevitably, in hindsight, we realize that the efforts at censorship were a huge mistake. ‘Bob Corn-Revere has written a book of stunning originality and importance. By tracing the efforts at censorship in American history, Corn-Revere shows us the temptations for censorship exist in every generation. Inevitably, the censors self-righteously think that they are doing good for society by stopping harmful speech.
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Nadine Strossen - immediate past President, American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018) ‘As a longtime student and advocate of free speech, it is a rare joy to encounter a new work that so greatly enhances my understanding and appreciation of this precious freedom, providing renewed encouragement and ammunition for continuing the never-ending efforts that are required to resist constant censorial pressures. Regardless of how much or how little you know or care about free speech when you begin this book, you will be enlightened, inspired, and galvanized by every page!’ Stone - Professor of Law, University of Chicago and author of Sex and the Constitution (2017) This original work is informative, insightful, and often wildly entertaining.’ Corn-Revere brings to life the absurdities of censorship and the dangers such views pose to American liberty and democracy.
‘Corn-Revere’s extraordinary The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder offers a riveting review and astute analysis of the evolution of free expression - and censorship of free speech - in the US through the eras of Anthony Comstock, ‘offensive’ comic books, porn rock, the FCC’s regulation of the ‘vast wasteland,’ fleeting expletives, and the indecency wars of the twenty-first century.
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