Praise for “Mind of the Censor…”

  • A momentous contribution to First Amendment literature.

    — Ronald K.L. Collins, co-author of We Must not be Afraid to be Free and The Trials of Lenny Bruce

  • It’s the best available medicine against any pandemic of censorship.

    — Flemming Rose, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and former editor at Jyllands-Posten

  • It’s smart, funny, knowledgeable, honest, freedom-loving and works for truth, justice, and the American way.

    — Penn Jillette, the taller, louder half of Penn & Teller

Reviews

 

Los Angeles Review of Books

What Makes Censors Tick? By Stephen Rohde

An “entertaining, enlightening, and timely book.” Bob Corn-Revere’s The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma is “a short primer on the value of free speech and the danger of censorship that should be handed out in every high school, college campus, faculty meeting, town council, PTA meeting, hospital waiting room, grocery store, barber shop, political debate, house of worship, social media platform, state legislature, and especially the halls of Congress.” Read more.

June 14, 2022

FIRE

‘The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder’ introduces a new generation to the infamous (and often absurd) Anthony Comstock by Greg Lukianoff, Adam Goldstein, and Ryne Weiss

“To students of the First Amendment, Comstock (1844-1915) is a familiar villain, because a surprising amount of America’s free speech movement can be traced back to the uniquely addled psyche of the crusading postal inspector.”… read more.

November 1, 2021