Ethical Issues & Debates

Why free speech is the lifeblood of colleges and universitiesFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and of...

In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert McCrum, and Oxfor...

Our special report looks at freedoms to study and research around the world, with reports from Turkey, South Africa and China, along with new ficti...

It isn''t enough to celebrate the death penalty''s demise. We must learn from it.When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the st...

When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political ...

It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice from Confederation until 1976. The Prac...

Imperial Germany''''s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral...

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taki...

Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature is a non-fiction study of literary freedom from a political-philosophical perspective. It adds an ...

Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective storybeautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in...

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taki...

Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group...

WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US govern...

Please note: this book was written and published prior to Manning's identification as Chelsea. Beginning in early 2010, Chelsea Manning leaked an a...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation Namita Gokhale A masterpiece Guardian I really admire and love this book Sally Rooney An intellectu...

For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate...

What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different...

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition places abortion politics in the context of reproductive justice today and explains why abortion has been--and...

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defen...

With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court, and several states with only one abortion clinic, many reproductive rights activists are on th...

Over the last 50 or 60 years, there has appeared a directional shift in the medical and social culture of the United States. We see it in the news ...

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and fam...

Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. B...

Meet Chloe: passionate about midwifery and on the cusp of adulthood. As a student midwife in inner-city Leicester, Chloe finds fulfilment caring f...