Harry Clor: Obscenity and Public MoralityUniversity of Chicago Press | 1969
Harry Clor’s 1969 book Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society develops a case against the Supreme Court’s decisions in Roth v. United States and Miller v. California to bring an end to most forms of censorship that appealed to standards of decency and obscenity. Clor argues that “public morality,” as antiquated as it may appear, is indispensable to any functioning society and so cannot be disregarded by the law even in a liberal society.
Conference on Obscenity and Public Morality
Clor, Harry M. Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
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Clor, Harry M. Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996.
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Clor, Harry M. “Mill and Millians on Liberty and Moral Character.” Review of Politics 47, No. 1 (1985): 3-26.
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“Free Speech and Public Morality.” Panel at the James Madison Program, Princeton University. Walter Berns, Rochelle Gurstein, Ben Kleinerman, and Robert George.
Yenor, Scott. “When Public Morality Lost Its Foothold: The Unheeded Wisdom of Harry Clor.” Law & Liberty. March 19, 2019.
