In The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from
Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities, Alan Dershowitz--New York
Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal
scholars--analyzes the current regressive war against freedom of speech
being waged by well-meaning but dangerous censors and proposes steps
that can be taken to defend, reclaim, and strengthen freedom of speech
and other basic liberties that are under attack.
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and
consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and
"the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its
most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. He is
also a fair-minded and even-handed expert on the Constitution and our
civil liberties, and in this book offers his knowledge and insight to
help readers understand the war being waged against free speech by the
ostensibly well-meaning forces seeking to constrain this basic right.
The Case Against the New Censorship is an analysis of every aspect of
the current fight against freedom of speech, from the cancellations and
deplatformings practiced by so-called progressives, to the powerful,
seemingly arbitrary control exerted by Big Tech and social media
companies, to the stifling of debate and controversial thinking at
public and private universities. It assesses the role of the Trump
presidency in energizing this backlash against basic liberties and puts
it into a broader historical context as it examines how anti-Trump
zealots weaponized, distorted, and weakened constitutional protections
in an effort to "get" Trump by any means.
In the end, The Case Against the New Censorship represents an icon in
American law and politics exploring the current rapidly changing
attitudes toward the value of free speech and assessing potential ways
to preserve our civil liberties. It is essential reading for anyone
interested in or concerned about freedom of speech and the efforts to
constrain it, the possible effects this could have on our society, and
the significance of both freedom of speech and the battle against it in
a greater historical and political context.
