Includes index.

Free expression and the human condition -- Ancient speech and natural law -- The British experience : the star chamber, Blackstone, and "the nonconformists" -- The American revolution and Madison's monster -- The Boston Tea Party and America's birth in rage -- Shays' rebellion and the rise of American sedition -- The whiskey rebellion and "Hamilton's insurrection" -- Fries and the faux rebellion -- Adams and the return of "the monster" -- Jefferson and the wasp -- Jackson and the "lurking traitors" amongst us -- Lincoln and the Copperheads -- The gilded age and the mobbing of "free speech" -- Comstock and the obscenity of dissent -- "Wobblies" and World War I -- The bund and the biddle : sedition in World War II -- McCarthy and the Red Scare -- The days of rage : race, rhetoric, and rebellion in the 1960s -- Antifa, MAGA, and the age of rage -- January 6th and the revival of American sedition -- Holmes and the "route to hell" -- Holmes and Schenck : the socialist in a crowded theater -- Holmes and the "Deb's rebellion" -- The good Holmes and the abandonment of Schenck -- Rockwellian free speech -- Finding the forty-two of free speech -- "False news" and censorship by surrogate -- Academic orthodoxy and the restoration of free speech in higher education -- Slaying Madison's monster : ending sedition and speech prosecutions.