Description A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of Free speech -- and how we can reclaim it.
A graduate of Hampshire College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, they live in New Orleans.. com, New Republic, Wired, Slate, Buzzfeed, Splinter, and Vice.
A former staff writer for Al Jazeera America, they have written for publications including the Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker.
Moskowitz is the author of How to Kill a City.
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In this forcefully argued, necessary corrective, Moskowitz makes the Case for speech as a tool-for exposing the truth, demanding equality, and fighting for all our civil liberties.
Our current definition of Free speech replicates power while dissuading dissent, but a new ideal is emerging.
Weaving together history and reporting from Charlottesville, Skokie, Standing Rock, and the college campuses where student protests made national headlines, Moskowitz argues that these flashpoints reveal more about the state of our democracy than they do about who is allowed to say what.
What\'s more, our investment in the First Amendment obscures an uncomfortable truth: Free speech is impossible in an unequal society where a few corporations and the ultra-wealthy bankroll political movements, millions of voters are disenfranchised, and our government routinely silences critics of racism and capitalism.
Moskowitz provocatively shows in The Case Against Free Speech, the term has been defined and redefined to suit those in power, and in recent years, it has been captured by the right to push their agenda.
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We argue about whether it\'s at risk, whether college students fear it, whether neo-Nazis deserve it, and whether the government is adequately upholding it.
There\'s a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: Free speech.
Description A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of Free speech -- and how we can reclaim it
