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In a democracy, censorship is among the worst of all evils. The attempt to stifle free expression runs counter to the most basic tenets of free society. Particularly at a university, censorship undermines the unfettered search for truth that is supposed to define what higher learning is all about.
Until now, it's been all Newt. He lectures; he threatens; he denies; he clarifies. Every word, every musing, every hyperbolic expression is recorded and decoded. Newt Gingrich, the incoming House speaker, has dominated the debate as few politicians ever do. Even Bill Clinton, still conflicted about What It All...
Allen found humor useful in prison. He made the meanest guards laugh by putting pictures of Richard Nixon in the peephole of his cell when they made their rounds. Later he staged comedy shows for the other inmates. Once, while riding a bus to another prison, he managed to slip...
In principle, it is wrong to use the courts as a political weapon against the legitimate expression of the popular will. Testing the constitutionality of controversial new laws is important in upholding the checks and balances that keep our government functioning. However, constitutionality is not at stake in abolishing rent...
The author seems to have used these stories as sketches for longer fiction, and no single effort stands out as a masterpiece. There is a rough, unshaped quality to some of them not seen in his well-made novels, as if Auchincloss had simply stopped writing when an idea or...