Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

Harvey's latest book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, (Encounter Books) focuses on the way in which federal criminal statutes and regulations, since the mid-1980s, have become so vague that the Deptartment of Justice and FBI can all too easily target, prosecute, and even convict people – ordinary professionals – who have no way of knowing that their conduct might be seen as criminal. Every sector of civil society – lawyers, politicians, artists, accountants and academics, to name a few – have been subjected to a justice system that lacks, in many ways, the basic tenets of justice. See www.threefeloniesaday.com for more information.

Three Felonies a Day is available on Amazon.

The Shadow University

The Shadow University, written by two long-time friends and civil liberties advocates -- one more liberal, the other more conservative -- illuminates the attack on liberty that has dominated our nation's college campuses for nearly two decades.

This book shows how the best aspects of the 1960's -- free speech, equality of rights, respect for private conscience, and a sense of undergraduate liberties and adult responsibilities -- have died on our campuses. What is left of that heady decade are its worst part: self-appointed "progressives" who seek to enforce moral and political orthodoxies through abuse and coercion rather than reason. In a nation whose future depends upon an education in freedom, colleges and universities are teaching the values of censorship, self-censorship, and self-righteous abuse of power.

The Shadow University, published by The Free Press in hardcover in 1998 and, the following year, by HarperPerennial in paperback -- both still in print -- is yet more relevant since 9/11. Faculty members who eagerly dismantled the structures of liberty in the 1980s and 1990s have now discovered that one reaps what one sows, and that censorship is a weapon that, if tolerated, all sides may use. If the past twenty years proves anything, it is that liberty is non-partisan and an essential way of being human, morally, politically, and intellectually.

The Shadow University is an urgent call to all those concerned with liberty -- liberals, conservatives, and everything in between -- to join together in defense of liberty for the next generation, by restoring free speech, equality of rights, fair procedures, and respect for private conscience and individuality on our colleges and universities.

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Harvey's book The Shadow University, co-authored by Alan Kors, is available in both hardcover and paperback.

FIRE

After co-authoring The Shadow University, Alan C. Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate received hundreds of pleas for help from victims of illiberal policies, double standards, intolerable violations of their rights, and intrusions upon private consciences on college campuses. In response, they founded the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, a non-profit educational foundation based in Philadelphia, PA.

FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities, including freedom of speech; legal equality; due process; religious liberty; and sanctity of conscience. These essential freedoms are protected through two FIRE Programs: the Individual Rights Defense Program and the Individual Rights Education Program. The FIRE's blog, The Torch, also keeps readers up-to-date on important campus matters across the country. Ultimately, FIRE seeks to end the debilitating fatalism that paralyzes students and faculty by bringing public attention to the issue while providing protection to those who are now helpless in the face of abuses of power on campuses across the nation.

Contact

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