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How The Espionage Act Became a Tool of Repression
This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.
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Geoffrey R. Stone
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
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June 23, 2017
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Our Trouble with Sex: A Christian Story?
"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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New York Review of Books
on
August 17, 2017
One of the 19th Century’s Greatest Villains is the Anti-Abortion Movement’s New Hero
Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.
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Ian Millhiser
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Vox
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April 12, 2023
The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love
Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.
by
Margaret Talbot
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The New Yorker
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July 15, 2021
Our First Authoritarian Crackdown
A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.
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Brenda Wineapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 23, 2020
Conservatives Say Campus Speech Is Under Threat. That’s Been True for Most of History.
There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.
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Todd Gitlin
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Washington Post
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August 11, 2017
