This collection features essays from philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars that address the crisis of free speech in higher education. The topics covered include trigger warnings, safe spaces, micro-aggression policies, bias-reporting programs, and the dis-invitation of speakers deemed inconsistent with progressive ideology
Free Speech and Liberal Education examines the empirical, philosophical, and remedial dimensions of the battle over free speech and academic freedom in American higher education today.
In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court. Downs combines social history with legal interpretation in this examination of the tension between individual freedom and community integrity.
Fresh empirical evidence of pornography's negative effects and the resurgence of feminist and conservative critiques have caused local, state, and federal officials to reassess the pornography issue. In "The New Politics of Pornography, " Donald Alexander Downs explores the contemporary antipornography movement and addresses difficult questions about the limits of free speech. Drawing on official transcripts and extensive interviews, Downs rec...
In MORE THAN VICTIMS, author Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal defense, ultimately revealing how the syndrome's logic actually harms those it is trying to protect. A persuasive account of how constitutional freedom and individual justice can be threatened by current legal standards.
