"It is refreshing to read a book that is original and contains material that is thoughtful, incisive, and provocative....Points are made with care and with clarity....Should stimulate class discussion."--Robert W. Langran, Villanova University

"Ambitiously and successfully interdisciplinary, making crucial appeals to philosophical and social theories....Marks a new era of free speech scholarship in which the best work...powerfully integrates legal analysis with critical and philosophical theory....Pathbreaking achievements of constitutional scholarship in particular and legal scholarship more generally."--David Richards, University of Pennsylvania Law Review

"A formidable book, a well documented book, a radical book yet all American as the right field bleachers....Baker has opened my eyes to new and exciting vistas and has often thrilled and challenged me in the deep heart's core."--Journal of the Southeastern Baptist Seminar

"Baker is perhaps the most consistent and eloquent defender of radically protective liberal first-amendment theory in the legal academy. [This book] represents Baker's most comprehensive effort to defend, on the basis of liberal theory, "' broad realm [of protection for] nonviolent, noncoercive, expressive activity.'"--Jordan Steiker, Texas Law Review

"On every problem he discusses, Baker illuminates facets previously undisclosed. He so frequently and energetically explores the arguments against his own position that he might contend that I have borrowed many of my criticisms from him ... The reader will find in this book an endless number of cogent, well-considered arguments on a wide array of first amendment topics, presented with greater clarity than one expects in an academic work."--Constitutional Commentary