Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.
Freedom of expression, long an issue that united liberals, now serves to drive them apart. This book analyzes the pressure on liberal thought resulting from such controversies as pornography, Mapplethorpe and artistic expression, and the rights of street-corner orators.
