Posts Tagged: first amendment

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

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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

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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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Expression So Vile

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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 Court’s conservative majority is going to overturn almost a century’s worth of precedent when it returns its decision. But there’s another case before the Court […]

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Newspapers dying? Maybe it’s just the cities they mythologized

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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, Rodriguez says,  “I don’t think the Chronicle is dying so much as I think that San Francisco is dying.”

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