Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform.(Review)

Unfree Speeeh: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform By Bradley A. Smith. Princeton University Press, 286 pages, $26.95 IT'S A SHAME THAT THE DEBATE over campaign finance reform as played out in the mainstream media is so shallow and so dull. While a distant clamor occasionally arises from Washington about such proposed reforms as the McCain-Feingold bill, the truly interesting questions about money, politics, and free speech go unaddressed and undebated by the American public.

Is the act of spending or donating money a kind of speech? Does money talk, or is it, as one ...

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