The Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk

Robert J. Brym teaches in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.

"Passionate advocacy in clear, well-organized prose."-CHOICE, At the same time, this kind of feature is an example of perhaps the greatest virtue of this book - its ability to promote discussion. That a book lamenting our diminished freedom of speech has the ability to encourage more speech from its readers is a sign of a job well done.-The Law and Politics Book Review, The strongest attribute of Freeing Speech is its broad-based approach. It offers a holistic perspective (somewhat akin to the "intersectionality" preferred by critical legal studies scholars) to explore the dynamics of multiple forces that constitute the NSP... Because of it's approach, this work may be particularly instructive for undergraduates in political science departments, law students in specialized seminars on free speech or presidential war powers, and serious lay readers who hope for a synthetic overview on our current state of executive overreaching. For them, Denvir's clear and coherent writing style, infused with an admirable degree of rhetorical elegance, adds to the material's accessibility.-Concurring Opinions, "Denvir is one of our most lucid and inspiring writers on the constitutional law questions of today. He boldly confronts our most dangerous problems, such as the limitless national security powers of today's presidents, without the usual pretense that the Framers somehow handed down the answer. Instead, Denvir asks us as citizens to find or frame a contemporary constitutional limit to such dangerous power." -Charles A. Reich, author of "The Greening of America" "Denvir joins an analysis of the 'National Security Presidency' with an examination of the current state of free speech law to offer provocative suggestions for a First Amendment for our time, one that would provide us today with the information we need to govern ourselves." -Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School