The boundaries of freedom of expression & order in American democracy / ed. by Thomas R. Hensley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index.

Freedom of expression in the United States: past present / Kathleen Sullivan -- The sorrow and the pity: Kent state, political dissent, and the misguided worship of the first amendment / Gerald N. Rosenberg. Responses: the sorrow and pity from May 4, 1970 / Eric D. Miller ; The sorrow and the pity / Robert M. O'Neil ; Hope and despair: first amendment doctrine, human nature, and the protection of political dissent / Gerald N. Rosenberg -- Deliberation down and dirty: must political expression be civil? / David M. Estlund. Responses: Whose power? Which rationality? / Michael Byron ; Civility of justice? / Ladelle McWhorter ; Deliberation and wide civility / David M. Estlund -- Violent suppression of freedom: narratives of social order and disorder in contemporary U.S. media / J. David Slocum. Responses: It's showtime / Timothy D. Smith ; Do narratives of violence come with a price? / Juliet Dee ; In the ivory tower and beyond: expanding public discourse about cyberspace / J. David Slocum -- A right to kill bears or bear quills? A critical commentary and on the linkage of the first and second amendments in recent constitutional theory / Saul Cornell. Responses: the right of bear (and the regulation of) arms and quills / Paul M. Haridakis ; Pulling the trigger: contextualizing the second amendment / David E. Dyvig ; Words don't kill people, guns do / Saul Cornell -- Hate speech, viewpoint neutrality, and the American concept of democracy / James Weinstein. Responses: democratic morality needs first amendment morality / Norman Fischer ; Equality and expression / Jonathan L. Entin ; Some further thoughts on hate speech and democracy / James Weinstein -- Challenging boundaries for a boundless medium: information access, libraries, and freedom of expression in a democratic society / Susan B. Kretchmer and Rod Carveth. Responses: Fog at the boarder / Don A. Wicks ; Indistinct boundaries of the first amendment / Susan Newhart Elliott ; Meeting the challenge / Susan B. Kretchmer and Ros Carveth -- Free speech on campus: academic freedom and the corporation / Ellen W. Schrecker. Responses: what about the first amendment? / Florence W. Dore ; Academic freedom and the academic enterprise / Mark A. Graber ; Siblings not twins: academic freedom and free expression / Ellen Schrecker -- Student academic freedom: an oxymoron? / Katheryn Katz. Responses: Oxymoron on the commons / Donald M. Hassler ; Until the justices hold court in my classroom: an interdisciplinary approach to student academic freedom / Nancy C. Cornwell ; Student academic freedom redux / Katheryn Katz -- Unspoken danger: the curtailment of free expression and the endangerment of youth / Daniel Perlstein. Responses: competing and compelling interests / Mary Anne Higgins ; The work of the school / Leslie Friedman Goldstein ; Discipline and democracy / Daniel Perlstein -- Freedom of expression in the United States: the future / Cass R. Sunstein