Product Description: When an organization committed to free speech succumbs to pressure to suppress internal criticism and disregard or "spin" the truth, it offers important lessons for other associations, corporations, and governments. Wendy Kaminer, a renowned advocate of civil liberties, calls on her experience as a dissident member of the American Civil Liberties Union national board to tell an inside story of dramatic ethical decline that has much to teach us about the land mines of groupthink...read more

Product Description: A lawyer, social critic, and columnist at The American Prospect, Wendy Kaminer has said that she likes to think words have power but knows they don't cast spells. She argues with her readers and expects them to argue back. Her taste for liberty, her legal training, wit, and innate contrarianism help her elude the usual political labels and inform her writings on censorship, feminism, pop psychology, religion, criminal justice, and a range of rights and liberties at issue in the culture wars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author of I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional examines the dramatic growth of the irrational and supernaturalism in modern society, criticizing the fascination with paranormal and supernatural phenomena, exploring its roots, and detailing the irrationalism of the new digital culture. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Gathers articles, book reviews, and essays in which the feminist scholar expounds on sex, politics, Hilary Clinton, gun control, freedom of speech, and scholarly language abuse

Challenging currently accepted beliefs about crime, violence, and punishment, an examination of these issues calls for a non-emotional, answer-driven approach to human accountability

A critical look at the recovery movement diagnoses various groups' tendency toward authoritarianism and the cult of victimhood and evaluates the claims of gurus such as Shirley MacLaine and M. Scott Peck. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. NYT.

Explains how women in the eighties backed down from the fight for equality and returned to their more passive role because of their doubt of competing with men in the workplace while still being responsible for child care