The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society / Narain D. Batra.
2013
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Title
The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society / Narain D. Batra.
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Call Number
KF4770 .B38 2013
ISBN
9781442225879 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442225874 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442225886 (electronic)
1442225882
9781442225886
1442225874 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442225886 (electronic)
1442225882
9781442225886
Description
xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)854980389
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-218) and index.
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Variant Title
1st freedoms and America's culture of innovation
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Preface: How the Book Was Born
xi
Prometheus and Confucius
xii
Human Rights and Julian Assange
xiii
Gratitude
xv
Introduction: The Making of the Aspirational Society
1
Promethean Possibilities of the Aspirational Society
6
1.
Turbulence and Harmony
13
The Cauldron of Creativity
13
Pragmatism
15
Pursuing the Freedom Trail Wherever It Leads
17
Court Ruling
18
But Thank God: For Every Jerry Falwell There's Larry Flynt
19
Crude and Outrageous Speech as Corrective
22
The First Amendment Is More Than Free Speech
24
Historians Need Lessons
25
Doubtfully Trusting
27
How Unscripted Life Enables Innovative Behavior
27
State of Paranoia
29
How the First Amendment Creates Mongrelized Offspring
30
Creative Disequilibrium
31
Warning
32
When the U.S. Supreme Court Woke Up
34
Freedom from Irrational Fear
36
Tyranny of Self-Censorship
37
2.
How Free Speech Stimulates Innovative Behavior
39
The Remaking of Motherhood and Other Wonders
39
Right of Procreation
41
Mitigating Reproductive Constraints
42
Seeking Answers
43
Freedom from Revealed Truth
45
Eternal Optimism for Making the World a Better Place
47
Sustainable Innovation
48
Civic Participation
50
Openness Makes Americans Inventive
51
Global Brain-Grid Emerging
55
Democratization and Innovation
57
3.
Telling Stories to a Hyperconnected World
61
A Vigorous and Wide Open Newsosphere
61
Unfiltered and Unbridled
63
Harassment
64
A Hazardous Vocation
66
Balancing Competing Interests
66
Trust, But Verify
68
Outrageously Transparent
70
Continuum of the Fake and the Real
71
Unreliable Sources
72
News: Simulation and Dissimulation
74
Dark Journalism
75
Social Media and Online Civic Journalism
76
Empowering Citizen Journalists
77
Exaggerated Fears
78
News Media and Innovation
80
Exceptional
81
The Power of Weak Ties
83
Building Trust in Social Networks
85
Can Social Networking Create Social Capital Despite Weak Ties?
88
WikiLeaks's Challenge
89
Making Sense
91
New Challenges
94
4.
Commercial Speech and Innovation
97
The Soft Power of Aspirational Brands
97
Status Change
98
Challenging Authority
99
Commercial Speech and the Public Interest
102
Language and Innovation
104
Fired Up and Get Going
104
Beautiful Deceptions
107
The Culture of Aspiration and the Arab Street
109
Turning Ideas into Assets
111
Mashing Up
112
Business Methods Patenting
113
Corporate Speech
115
5.
Free Press and Marketplace Fundamentalism
119
The Dark Side of the Aspirational Society
119
Sources of Corruption
120
Insatiable at the Top
124
Hit the Numbers or You Are Out
127
The Moral Neutrality of Numbers
127
Money, Money, Money, and More Money
129
When Drug Companies Sell Snake Oil
130
Free Press and Corporate Behavior
133
Who Do You Call When Nothing Works?
135
6.
China's Authoritarianism Challenges American Democratic Exceptionalism
139
The Roar of the Dragon
139
Vicious Capitalist Energy
140
Extreme Nationalism
142
No Gratitude
144
Pacific Ocean Issue
145
Can China Challenge America without Embracing the First Freedoms?
147
Pragmatism
148
Dissidents in the Digital Age
149
Human Rights
150
Virtual Struggle
151
Cyber Resistance
153
The Persistence of China's Dissenters
153
Will Information Be Free in China?
156
Abundance without Freedom
157
Half-Hearted Freedom
159
The Future Is a Dragon. Do You Hear It Coming?
160
Points of Light
161
Innovation in a Closed Society
162
Challenge to the United States
164
7.
Political Innovations of the Aspirational Society
165
To Live and Die in Freedom; That's America, But What About the Rest of the World?
165
The Decider-Warrior President
167
War Games and Diplomacy
169
Awesome Temptations of Neoimperialism
171
Beware the Power of the Unexpected
173
Building Pillars of Freedom on Soft Power
175
How Does Soft Power Arise?
176
The First Amendment and the Aspirational Society
178
A Just and Meritorious Society
179
The Flight of the Black Swan to the White House
180
The Aspirational Society Must Not Shrug
182
Empathy and Imperialism
183
Propaganda
185
Conclusion: Free Speech as Energy
187
Pushing the Boundaries of Permissible Thought
187
Dilemma
189
Dependent Origination of the Aspirational Society
191
Notes
195
Index
219
About the Author
235