A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack this is of free of charge speech–and how we can reclaim it.

There’s a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free conversation. We argue about whether it’s at risk, whether university students fear it, whether neo-Nazis deserve it, and if the government is adequately upholding it.

But as P. E. Moskowitz provocatively shows in The Case Against Free of charge about THE SITUATION Against Free Talk: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent Speech, the term has been described and redefined to match those in power, and in recent years, it has been captured by the proper to drive their agenda. What’s more, our expenditure in the First Amendment obscures an uncomfortable truth: free speech is impossible in an unequal culture in which a few companies as well as the ultra-wealthy bankroll politics movements, an incredible number of voters are disenfranchised, and our federal government consistently silences critics of racism and capitalism.

Weaving together history and reporting from Charlottesville, Skokie, Position Rock, and the college campuses where student protests produced national headlines, Moskowitz argues these display points show more about the condition of our democracy than they are doing about who’s allowed to say what.

Our current definition of free speech replicates power while dissuading dissent, but a new ideal is rising. In this forcefully argued, necessary corrective, Moskowitz makes the case for talk being a tool–for exposing the truth, demanding equality, and fighting for many our civil liberties.