Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

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More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from Americas culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First ...(展開全部) More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from Americas culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment. In Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis describes how our free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas - political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial speech, and unusual forms of expression such as T-shirts and campaign spending. It is a story of hard choices, heroic judges, and the fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face to face with one of Americas great founding ideas 安東尼·劉易斯（Anthony Lewis），畢業於哈佛學院。曾任《紐約時報》周日版編輯、駐華盛頓司法事務報導記者、倫敦記者站主任、專欄作者，目前是《紐約書評》專欄作者。1955年、1963年兩度獲普利茲獎。劉易斯曾在哈佛大學執教（1974-1989），並自1982年起，擔任哥倫比亞大學“詹姆斯·麥迪遜講席”教授，講授第一修正案與新聞自由。著有《吉迪恩的號角》、《十年人物：第二次美國革命》、《言論的邊界：美國憲法第一修正案簡史》。

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

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