473 - Eric Berkowitz (Author: "Dangerous Ideas")

Published: April 29, 2021, 7 a.m.

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ERIC BERKOWITZ\\xa0is a writer, lawyer, and journalist. He has a degree in print journalism from University of Southern California and has published in\\xa0The Los Angeles Times\\xa0and\\xa0The Los Angeles Weekly, and for the\\xa0Associated Press. He was an editor of the West Coast\\u2019s premier daily legal publication,\\xa0The Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco.

He is the author of:\\xa0The Boundaries of Desire: Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities and Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire.\\xa0His new book,\\xa0Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News\\xa0is out now. Eric on Twitter.

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