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[Wendy Kaminer] ☆ Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today A lawyer, social critic, and columnist at The American Prospect, Wendy Kaminer has said that she likes to think words have power but knows they don't cast spells. She argues with her readers and expects them to argue back. In this new collection, Kaminer has her sights set on the fate of civil liberties in America. Opening with a powerful overview of liberty's tenuous hold on this "land of the free," Kaminer offers incisive, original investigations of political freedom in our frightened,
Title | : | Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.15 (834 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0807044113 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-09-01 |
Language | : | English |
From Publishers Weekly "Live Free or Die," New Hampshire's grammar-challenged state motto, sounds worthy enough on the surface. She's for flag-burning as peaceful protest, instituting the Equal Rights Amendment and protecting abortion rights. 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. Despite Kaminer's argument that "civil libertarianism is a nonpartisan virtue," this will be an important book particularly for lefties who feel left behind in a nation in which conservatives are winning most of the battles.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. A champion of First Amendment freedoms, Kaminer argu
A lawyer, social critic, and columnist at The American Prospect, Wendy Kaminer has said that she likes to think words have power but knows they don't cast spells. She argues with her readers and expects them to argue back. In this new collection, Kaminer has her sights set on the fate of civil liberties in America. Opening with a powerful overview of liberty's tenuous hold on this "land of the free," Kaminer offers incisive, original investigations of political freedom in our frightened, post-September 11 world and reviews perennial threats to sexual and religious liberty, free speech, privacy, and the right to be free from unwarranted, unprincipled prosecutions.. Her taste for liberty, her legal training, wit, and innate contrarianism help her elude the usual political labels and inform her writings on censorship, feminism, pop psychology, religion, criminal justice, and a range of rights and liberties at issue in the culture wars
Wendy Kaminer is the author of many books, including I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-help Fashions and Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, and Newsweek, and her commentarie
Equally critical of Left & Right opponents of civil liberty Thank goodness for Wendy Kaminer. A consistent thinker in the midst of our culture of conflict between fabricated absolutist alternatives.This book is a collection of short essays on the state of American liberties which previously appeared in the "The American Prospect" over the past two years. They have been updated with additional material to confront the iss. This book is thoughtful and well argued. The few Douglas K. Smith This book is thoughtful and well argued. The few sections with which I disagreed were still thought provoking and worthy of consideration.. "Timely collection of essays in defense of the Bill of Rights" according to Dennis Littrell. Social conservatives, Stalinist feminists, and political correct Democrats (not to mention the Christian soldiers of the Bush administration) will find no comfort here. Wendy Kaminer is going to come down on the side of individual freedom against governmental power whatever the issue at hand.In this collection of essays, mostly from her column in The American Pr
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