Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993
Women and Pornography
By Ronald Dworkin
Only Words
by Catherine A. MacKinnon
Harvard University Press, 152 pp., $14.95
People once defended free speech to protect the rights of firebrands attacking government, or dissenters resisting an established church, or radicals campaigning for unpopular political causes. Free speech was plainly worth fighting for, and it still is in many parts of the world where these rights hardly exist. But in America now, free-speech partisans find themselves defending mainly racists shouting 'nigger' or Nazis carrying swastikas or—most often—men looking at pictures of naked women with their legs spread open.
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