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...support free speech, freedom of belief and association, so this came as a big shock to me,” Khurram said...
...pressed to their head.If it can’t truly have the effect of promoting public awareness anymore, then what does lifting the ban really prove? On one hand, I think there has been a populist (and justified) desire to reverse many of the restrictions on freedom of speech and press resulting from America’s last two wars. On the other hand, I think our present understanding of privacy has created a sense of entitlement to what is traditionally considered the utmost private and personal aspects of our lives.Before the advent of digital cameras and the internet, photography...
Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, focused on the financial crisis. After listening to his speech, Joel Pollak, a student at the law school, told Frank that the crisis "happened on your watch" and asked if Frank took "any responsibility" for the slide. Frank appeared to lose his cool and grew defensive, saying that Pollak "made an accusation that is wholly inaccurate." Their conversation escalated, with Frank calling Pollak's words a "right-wing attack on liberals", and Pollak retorting that Frank's "entire speech blam[ed] conservatives...
...ability to leave these “conversations” whenever we want has another, more sinister dimension. Whenever someone disagrees with that intelligent comment we posted on Huffington Post, we can simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people...
South Africa can take comfort from the knowledge that even its greatest leader had trouble making the transition from revolutionary to democrat. In office, Mandela expressed admiration for autocrats like Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and in his farewell speech to the ANC party conference in 1997 claimed South Africa's violent crime was part of a "counter-revolution" engineered by pro-apartheid whites "to render the country ungovernable." But in retirement, Mandela rediscovered his inner democrat, speaking out against tyranny, wherever he found it - even in his own party. In March 2007, at the funeral of Adelaide Tambo, wife...