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Contributors | November 10, 2009
By Zachary Lazar
Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation...
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 Sign
the petition to amend
Section 215 of the PATRIOT ACT
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Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT gives the FBI virtually
unlimited access to bookstore and library records. This
section of the PATRIOT ACT, hurriedly crafted and passed
after the tragedy of 9/11, has caused tremendous concern
among booksellers and bookstore customers, librarians
and library patrons, as well as many other groups. By
signing the Campaign
for Reader Privacy's petition, you will be notifying
your representatives in Congress that you support legislation
to restore the privacy of bookstore and library records.
As a longtime supporter of free speech and First Amendment
issues, Powell's Books strongly urges you to take a
moment and sign
the petition.
"First Amendment freedoms must not be weakened in
difficult times. It is precisely then that we most need
them." — Michael Powell, owner of Powell's Books
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First
Amendment Reading List
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Terrorism
and the Constitution : Sacrificing Civil Liberties in
the Name of National Security
James
X. Dempsey and Carole E. Goldberg,
In a vivid and important critique of
our government's response to threats — real and perceived
— from communists in the 1950s, Central American
activists in the 1980s, Palestinians in the 1990s, and
now Islamic terrorists in the twenty-first century, two
leading constitutional scholars warn that many of our
government's anti-terrorism efforts sacrifice civil liberties
without effectively protecting national security.
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The
Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America
Jeffrey
Rosen
"Using John Stuart Mill as his model,
Rosen mounts a strong argument that citizens of the U.S.
have had their right to privacy eroded over time, and
never more so than in the recent past....a thoughtful
book – and timely..." Frank Caso, Booklist
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BILL
OF RIGHTS
Amendment
IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Fahrenheit
451
Ray
Bradbury
"Frightening in its implications...Mr.
Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many
alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating."
The New York Times
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