num_pages: 192
description: Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties. In the midst of the “war on terror,” we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of the right to raise our voices and have those voices heard.
language: English
title: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
titlecomplete: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
genres: American, United States, Politics, Political Science, Social Justice, Nonfiction, Essays, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 124
publisher: Penguin Books