Worst instincts
by Wendy Kaminer · first published 2009
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What happens when an organization with the express goal of defending individual rights and liberties starts silencing its own board? Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer has intimate knowledge of the ensuing conflict between independent thinking and group solidarity. In this concise and provocative book, she tells an inside story of dramatic ethical decline at the American Civil Liberties Union, using it as a poignant case study of conformity and other vices of association.In Worst Instincts, Kaminer calls on her experience as a dissident member of the ACLU national board to illustrate the e
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In Worst Instincts [1] [2], Wendy Kaminer documents this. I lately have found the Rutherford Institute [3] to be a much better protector of individual rights than the ACLU. [4] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Instincts-Cowardice-Conformity-...…
on “Welcome, ACLU” ↗…naughty FaceBook messages [1], is the best civil liberties organization today. John Whitehead hosts 10-minute podcasts about every other week. [2] Wendy Kaminer has written WSJ articles and even a book, Worst Instincts, about the ACLU's illiberal decline. [3] [4] [5] [6] [0] https://www.rutherford.org/ [1] https://www.rutherford.org/issues/free_speech/brandon_raub [2] https://www.rutherford.org/podcast [3] https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/25/wendy-kaminer-responds-...…
on “The ACLU Has Lost Its Way” ↗…exactly this. Thanks again for the links. I did see that the author of one of the articles, Wendy Kaminer, used to work at the ACLU and does make claims of ethical decline at the ACLU. Her 2009 book Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity and the ACLU critiques what she regards as the ACLU’s ethical decline, ideological hypocrisy, and descent into groupthink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Kaminer
on “Welcome, ACLU” ↗