Table of Contents
Chapter 1 "Just Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay" 1
Chapter 2 "Tailored in an Appropriate Way": Can Free Speech Really Be Restricted in the United States? 21
Chapter 3 "Now Obviously This Is a Country That Is Based on Free Speech, but… ": The U.S. Government vs. Free Speech 39
Chapter 4 The "Hate Speech" Scam 59
Chapter 5 "Peer Pressure and Shaming" to Rein in Free Speech 75
Chapter 6 "Is That Being Racist?": Americans Learn Self-Censorship 91
Chapter 7 "Irresponsibly Provocative": The Erosion of Free Speech from Rushdie to Geller 111
Chapter 8 "Can't We Talk about This?": The Death of Free Speech in Europe 133
Chapter 9 Catholics against Free Speech 153
Chapter 10 "Not Conducive to the Public Good": Free Speech Dies in Britain and Canada 165
Chapter 11 The New Brownshirts 187
Chapter 12 "The University Prides Itself on Diversity": Administrators vs. Free Speech 207
Chapter 13 "Facing the New Totalitarianism": Fighting Back for the Freedom of Speech 225
Acknowledgments 231
Notes 235
Index 267