"Rediscovering a Lost Freedom is a timely and important book that forces us to look at the issue of free speech in a new--or at least 'rediscovered'--way. The mantra that 'more speech is always good' has lost currency in light of certain world events. Those who value speech have to confront the realities of this day and age of satellite transmissions and the global Internet. Garry provides a model designed to protect the important contributions that flow from free speech while recognizing the dangers it poses and the threats it faces around the globe. Not everyone will like the solutions that he sets forward, but the arguments are serious and the stakes are high. This is a book well worth reading." -- Ronald J. Rychlak, MDLA Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Mississippi School of Law "The freedom of speech has become a shield for intrusive and commercialized nihilism.

Professor Garry's balanced yet provocative analysis shows how that happened and offers a remedy that deserves serious national attention." -- Charles E. Rice, professor emeritus of law, University of Notre Dame "Patrick Garry's book is a unique blend of seemingly disparate elements: It contains both an impassioned denunciation of the garbage we are inundated with by the public media and a thoughtful, detailed proposal for changes in our first-amendment jurisprudence that would allow us to protect ourselves and our families from this unwanted deluge. Garry's book deserves a wide audience." -- Patrick Kelley, Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, School of Law "Rediscovering a Lost Freedom is important, intriguing, and thoroughly documented. It presents compelling arguments in support of a much-needed shift in First Amendment thinking. The book provides a common-sense blueprint for constructive constitutional change, change that Professor Garry backs up with solid research and legal analysis. This is a truly remarkable achievement, and I anticipate that the book will have a significant impact.

--Richard Wilkins, Brigham Young University School of Law "This is an intelligent and timely case for our right to censor unwanted speech that forces itself on us so often today. It is gratifying to read Professor Garry's critique of the outdated arguments used to defend intrusive pornography and violence." -- Paul C. Vitz, professor of psychology, emeritus, New York University and senior scholar, Institute for the Psychological Sciences "Rediscovering a Lost Freedom makes an original and exciting contribution to scholarly and public debate over the First Amendment. -- David M. Wagner, associate professor, Regent University School of Law "Rediscovering a Lost Freedom is a provocative challenge to the reigning orthodoxy of free expression. In our cultural exaltation of individual expression, Garry argues that we have lost sight of the historical and theoretical concerns that actuated the free speech guarantee. Building on concepts of low value speech he proposes that courts defer to legislative judgments protective of a listeners right to censor unwanted speech, so long as that speech is not political speech, the core concern of the First Amendment.

This is a book that should be read by anyone concerned with the future of free expression in a media-saturated culture." -- Calvin Massey, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings.