Stephen Bates

Stephen Bates is a professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press.

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The Man Who Wanted to Save the First Amendment by Inverting It

In the 1940s, the scholar William Ernest Hocking envisioned a theory under which the government actively facilitated free speech.
- Stephen Bates
- October 7, 2020