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...seat belt law] is not an abstract philosophical issue. It's about keeping human beings safe," said State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge), chair of the health care committee. "[Weld] let his libertarian ideas get in the way of common sense. The seat belt law will save lives and money...
Student journalists in Massachusetts have broad legal rights in deciding what to publish, a Harvard professor and a prominent Massachusetts civil libertarian told a group of high school reporters yesterday...
...Libertarian thinker Nathaniel Branden crystallized the privatization sentiment in an essay included in Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal. He responds to the question of whether education should be compulsory and tax-supported as it is today...
...civil libertarian perspective on free-dom of speech misses the Nativist hegemony aspect of New Right intellectuals' smoke-and-mirror manipulation of free-speech cultural agency into hate speech. The libertarian perspective lacks a certain humane-enhancing quality, causing libertarian proponents to ignore the fact that hate speech of the Mansfield type typically traffics in four things our postmodern era everywhere generates plenty of--anxiety, insecurity, anger, and confusion...
...virtually the only major democratic state that gives serious sway to the free-market or libertarian paradigm on speech issues. This is outmoded, I think. New Right intellectuals--and those they influence--utilize hate-speech as part of a cynical manipulation of the insecurities, anger, and confusion that are fundamental to postmodern life. Mansfield and his hate-speech are, I believe, very much the "business of the university," to quote Prof. Warren Goldfarb who differs with me on this. Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government