The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards
Silencing free speech
The great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff once said that our sex drive pales in comparison with our urge to censor. It's an urge that is played out in places high and low, encompassing both the serious and the absurd. Military veterans protesting the war are arrested in Boston and charged with disturbing the peace. An anti-abortion-rights activist in Maine borrows sex-education books from public libraries and refuses to return them. A legislative leader in ... Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
