Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the ......
Written by a veteran Hollywood journalist, this book provides an insider's look into Hollywood's 'dirtiest little secret' - the final product that moviegoers see at the theatre is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about America's armed forces.
Censored Art Today is an accessible, informed analysis of the debates raging around censorship of art and so-called 'cancel culture', focusing on who the censors are and why they are clamping down on forms of artistic expression worldwide. Art censorship is a centuries-old issue which appears to be on the rise in the 21st century - why is ......
How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom. In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore in 1940, local officials seized thousands of books and pamphlets and ......
How Teachers, Schools, and Communities Can Fight for Intellectual Freedom
This book provides a practical, research-based roadmap for educators to navigate restrictive policies and maintain diverse, inclusive classrooms. Books are being ripped from shelves, curricula redacted, and instruction forbidden at an unprecedented scale. As political polarization turns children's literature into a proxy for national "culture ......
How Teachers, Schools, and Communities Can Fight for Intellectual Freedom
This book provides a practical, research-based roadmap for educators to navigate restrictive policies and maintain diverse, inclusive classrooms. Books are being ripped from shelves, curricula redacted, and instruction forbidden at an unprecedented scale. As political polarization turns children's literature into a proxy for national "culture ......
Tackling prejudice, hatred, and discrimination is both laudable and necessary. In Britain and elsewhere, however, this noble cause has spawned a much less worthy corollary - the assumption that any criticism of Muslims or Islam should not be tolerated. The result has been an increase in false accusations of "Islamophobia" ("Islamofauxbia"), ......
Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics
Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today's book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today's controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead ......
