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Rumpus Exclusive: “First Amendment (in the moment, grotesquely exotic)”

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 5, 2019
I am not certain where I was when I first heard about the marketplace of ideas.
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Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock

  • Zoe Fisher
  • July 25, 2017
Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.
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  • Sex

Shark’s Teeth

  • Casey Calvert
  • December 29, 2015
My kink used to be my Deepest Darkest secret, and now it is an integrated part of my everyday life.
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Woman Whose Bio Resembled Novel’s Character Awarded $100K

  • Mark Pritchard
  • November 24, 2009
A woman who claimed a novelist and former friend based the character of a sexually promiscuous alcoholic on her has won a $100,000 libel award from a Georgia jury. Vicki…
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Expression So Vile

  • Brian Spears
  • September 19, 2009
The First Amendment case that’s getting most of the attention this year involves Citizens United and political speech by corporations, in large part because most court watchers believe that the…
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Newspapers dying? Maybe it’s just the cities they mythologized

  • Mark Pritchard
  • June 10, 2009
An interview on New American Media with writer Richard Rodriguez has a fascinating take on what’s happening to American newspapers. Using the famously provincial San Francisco Chronicle as an example,…
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