Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy, by Lewis H. Lapham, from Penguin Press, ISBN 1594200173. If dissent is democracy, democracy is in trouble. Never before, argues American dissident Lewis Lapham, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. Between a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties and a media establishment that values profits over truth, we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. Here is Lapham's rousing call to action in defense of the one right that gives us the power to defend all others.
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