{"product_id":"kindly-inquisitors-the-new-attacks-on-free-thought-9780226705750","title":"Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing attacks on free speech from Platos Republic to Americas campuses and newsrooms  Jonathan Rauch provides an engaging and provocative attack on those who would limit free thought by restricting free speech. Rauch explores how the system for producing knowledge works in a liberal society  and why it has now become the object of a powerful ideological attack. Moving beyond the First Amendment  he defends the morality  rather than the legality  of an intellectual regime that relies on unfettered and often hurtful criticism. Kindly Inquisitors is a refreshing and vibrant essay  casting a provocative light on the raging debates over political correctness and multiculturalism.  \"Fiercely argued. . . . What sets his study apart is his attempt to situate recent developments in a long-range historical perspective and to defend the system of free intellectual inquiry as a socially productive method of channeling prejudice.\"Michiko Kakutani  New York Times  \"Like no other  this book restates the core of our freedom and demonstrates how great  and disregarded  the peril to that freedom has become.\"Joseph Coates  Chicago Tribune  \"The philosophical defense of free speech and free thought that seems to have been forgotten. . . . A powerful argument.\"Diane Ravitch  Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647136981045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226705757","price":66.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226705750.jpg?v=1781689063","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/kindly-inquisitors-the-new-attacks-on-free-thought-9780226705750","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}