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Author Kaminer, Wendy.

Title Free for all : defending liberty in America today / Wendy Kaminer.

Imprint Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323 K128f 2002    ---  Available
Description xix, 235 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "Kaminer (Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety, etc.) argues in this insightful, incisive new collection of essays, most of which appeared in the American Prospect. The Bush administration's reaction to September 11 ramping up domestic surveillance, covertly detaining a thousand-plus suspects, instituting military rather than civil trials, squeezing dissent only continues what the author sees as a troubling trend of limiting liberty. A champion of First Amendment freedoms, Kaminer argues against restricting Internet communications, squelching pornography, threatening abortion providers under the guise of free speech and sacrificing defendants' rights in criminal trials in favor of the victims. She's for flag-burning as peaceful protest, instituting the Equal Rights Amendment and protecting abortion rights. A devout civil libertarian, Kaminer aims her crisp writing, clear thinking and deflating humor equally on all who would challenge liberties, from antipornography feminists to pro-surveillance attorneys general. She relishes exposing hypocrisy, such as the religion-based social engineering advocated by self-described antigovernment conservatives."--Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Contents Homeland offense, post-9/11 -- No place to hide -- Can we talk? -- Whose God is it anyway -- Criminally unjust -- Women's rights -- Women's wrongs -- Anti-individualism/left -- Anti-individualism/right -- Homeland offense, pre-9/11.
Subject Civil rights -- United States.
ISBN 0807044113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807044117 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 1868986
AU@ 000023518063

 
    
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