By Jay Sekulow
The left's outrage over the IRS turns to a plea to 'move on'
Barney Rosset was a publisher, not an author, and struggled for decades to write the story of his brave and wild life. But few over the past 60 years had so profound an impact on the way we read today.
Columbia University has acquired the papers of publisher and First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset.
Columbia University has acquired the papers of publisher and First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset.
Rosset reviewed his long history of defiance and stated that the "principal that no one has the right to tell us what we can and cannot read is one that has always been dear to me."
"I'm half-Jewish and half-Irish, and my mother and grandfather spoke Gaelic," he explained. "From an early age my feelings made the IRA look pretty conservative. I grew up hating fascism, hating racism."
