Word: speechã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.” All people, regardless of geographic and cultural bias, have a basic capacity for reason; governments should leave it to their citizens to discern between the true, the absurd, and the erroneous. Freedom of speech??which includes the right to seek truth by forming opinions of others’ freely-expressed thoughts—is a right fundamental to every person, regardless of his or her nationality. Cutting off Pakistan’s access to YouTube was, beyond an overreaction and an inconvenience...
...quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz quarreled over “free speech?? (read: Israel) last Fall! When the Faculty toppled former university President Lawrence H. Summers, scores of professors who normally traffic in the obscure got to see their names in print. All this is much more rewarding than actually running the place. Isn’t that what administrators...
...Free Speech?? Agenda...
...actually believe Dershowitz’s misrepresentation, I am categorically in favor of the broadest possible freedom of speech for everyone, whether I agree with them or not. If Dershowitz had taken the time to study my writings and actions, he would have realized this. Criticizing the content of speech??as I did with President Bollinger—is not the same thing as trying to deprive him of the right to speak, a distinction a law professor ought to understand...
...face the issue of how the conversation about the Israel-Palestine issue in particular has been shut down, the principle of “free speech?? will remain an empty, abstract principle. With my motion, I did not ask my colleagues to agree with me about Israel or even about the disadvantages of the dearth of high-ranking minorities on the Faculty Council and in the University administration—another major obstacle to dialogue among a necessary range of perspectives about University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth...