Ronald Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman scholar at the University of Washington Law He is the author or editor of several books including On Dissent: Its Meaning in America (2013), Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment (2013), We Must not be Afraid to be Free (2011), The Fundamental Holmes (2010), The Trials of Lenny Bruce (2002), The Death of Discourse (1992), and Constitutional Government in America (1980).