The Indispensable Right

By Jonathan Turley,

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A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.

Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United…

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1 author picked The Indispensable Right as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A pathbreaking defense of the natural right of freedom of speech based--not as a means to such ends as political participation or the discovery of truth--but as the end of human beings whose nature is to communicate via speech.

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