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  • 3 - Comstock’s Legacy: A Dilemma Is Born

  • Robert Corn-Revere
  • Book:
    The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder
    Published online:
    07 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021, pp 55-80

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 examines Anthony Comstock’s legacy and the birth of the “censor’s dilemma.” Although no censor before or since has wielded such power or had the same level of influence as Comstock, his achievements were washed away by cultural and legal evolution. Even in his time, his crusades did as much to promote the popularity of “forbidden” works, and since his time, the profession of censor has been forever tarnished. The legal doctrine on which Comstock depended was reversed by the development of First Amendment law through the twentieth century, particularly the law of obscenity. To the extent that Comstock is remembered today, he is the subject of derision and scorn.

  • Chapter 8 - Atheism and Liberty

  • from Part II - Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
  • Michael Shermer, Chapman University, California
  • Book:
    Giving the Devil his Due
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    09 April 2020, pp 86-92

  • Summary

    I took the opportunity to come at the problem from a different angle from that of the New Atheists’ anti-theism strategy of attacking religion directly, and argue instead for raising consciousness for religious skepticism through political freedom, namely protecting the rights of believers so that the rights of nonbelievers are equally protected.