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Bitter Memories Germany's anti-Nazi laws are both unjust and paranoid [Aug. 24]. America's First Amendment should apply throughout the world. There should be free speech for everyone, including communists, fascists, Marxists, Nazis, racists, religious maniacs and Trotskyists. Evelyn Beatrice Hall summarized Voltaire's argument thus: I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Mark Taha, LONDON...
...genuinely transformative factor is that China now gets Taiwan. The island is a more complex place for Beijing to decipher than Hong Kong and Macau, former British and Portuguese colonies whose governments could make no moral argument against the return of the two territories to Chinese sovereignty. Taiwan is different. Since 1987, when the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) lifted martial law, the island has gradually become a thriving, if somewhat rambunctious, democracy. Its 23 million people determine its future, not Beijing or London or Lisbon. A sizeable portion of the population - some estimates put it at as high as a third...
...recent Supreme Court appearance—a benchmark for success for the nation’s top lawyers—was front and center in the panel discussion. Fried, himself a veteran of the Supreme Court, commended Kagan for her ability to give and take in argument and acknowledge difficulty in argument before the nation’s top legal minds. “Are you saying I was confused?” Kagan jokingly interjected. Kagan came to the Law School to describe her new position—calling it depoliticized and emphasizing the importance of trust between...
Hopkin and questioners from the audience rarely presented compelling reasons to dispute the main thrust of Friedrich’s well-supported argument. The PETA leader argued that facts overwhelmingly show that eating meat is bad for the environment, for the world's poorest, and for the conscious experiences of animals. Instead of disputing Friedrich's figures, Hopkin and others raised abstract intellectual questions heard in Social Studies 10 and “Justice”: How can we compare animal pain with human pain? And can animals be a part of the social contract...
Friedrich's argument, by contrast, was direct and sure of its moral clarity. Throughout the event, he peppered his arguments with colorful quotations from celebs and intellectuals alike...