"Free speech and a free press are more fragile today than at any time since the drafting of the First Amendment. The book's conversations are an urgent reminder if we want to protect American democracy. Read them to celebrate the people who have been in the trenches to preserve our freedom to say what we want."-- Kyle Pope , Editor and Publisher, The Columbia Journalism Review "Hopefully this book will help confer the importance of free expression to a new generation and generations yet to come."-- Greg Lukianoff , President and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) "For over forty years, the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation has honored more than 150 unsung American heroes with its First Amendment Awards. So it is long past time to pay tribute to the Foundation's contribution to the fight for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In The First Amendment Lives On , eight of our most prominent scholars and activists do just that--in eloquent conversations that explore the enduring importance of these bedrock democratic values.

"-- Christopher Finan , Executive Director, National Coalition Against Censorship.