Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Starmer Resigns as British Prime Minister: A Post-Mortem

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Two years after winning in a landslide, with his Labour group being given its largest majority in Parliament in decades, PM Starmer found hi...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Passive Aggression on Campus: Redefining Hate-Speech

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Besides using social pressure and anger to purge words that a student or faculty member deems unacceptable, the word police have found that ...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

The Israeli Military Kills Starving Gazans Seeking Food as Police in Massachusetts Intimidate Human-Rights Protesters

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Even as the Israeli military was shooting innocent, starving people waiting for food in Gaza, Massachusetts police were overreacting to a pr...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Insulting Police in Georgia: Totalitarianism Criminalizing Politics

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Whereas the Georgia in North America has been a member-state of the U.S. from that union’s beginning, the Georgia in Europe was still not an...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

On the Hidden Police Power of Corporate America

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After the UnitedHealthcare chief executive “was gunned down by a masked man outside a Manhattan hotel” in New York City, “a days-long manhun...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

On Calls for a Genocide of the Jews: Harvard vs. Yale

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A university administration can be susceptible to creating an unlevel playing field in the name of truth but with political ideology in the ...
Friday, June 30, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court: Free Speech Trumps Public Accommodations Law

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I contend as a matter of reasoned opinion rather than infallible fact that the Free Speech protection in the U.S. Constitution applies to no...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Starbucks: A Racist Company Against Racism

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In June, 2023, Starbucks had to face a unanimous jury decision in favor of a regional manager whom Starbucks' upper management had fired...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Airing Ideas at Universities: Beyond the Book-Burning Hype

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In May 1933, some Germans in Nazi Germany burnt books authored by Jews so as to sever Jewish influence. So when some students at Georgia So...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Post

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In Spielberg’s The Post (2017), the fateful decision to publish portions of the Pentagon Papers centers on Katharine Graham’s being willing...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Free Speech in the E.U.: Criminalizing Denials of Genocides

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While the world continued to look on—like an impotent rich man who cannot afford Viagra—as a genocide was taking place in Syria (i.e., th...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

On the Place of Religion in Business: Refusing to Serve Gays

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December 2017 in a case on whether a baker in Colorado had been justified in refusing to sel...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Free Speech in the EU: On the Judgement on John Galliano's Anti-Semitism

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On March 1, 2011, Sidney Toledano, CEO of the French fashion house Christian Dior, wrote that he was dismissing its chief designer, John Ga...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Making a Joke Out of Liberty: Unmasking a Political Travesty

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“Land of the free” is a ubiquitous expression that Americans use to describe the United States. Presumably those states esteem liberty as a...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stevens Testifies on Campaign Finance Reform

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In his testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee in 2014, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens addressed the need for an amend...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Corporate Social Responsibility Countering Rush Limbaugh

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On February 29, 2012—Leap Day—Radio political-commentator and entertainer Rush Limbaugh called a female law student at Georgetown a “slut” a...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

On the Politics of Hate Speech: Wilders in the Netherlands

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Geert Wilders, head of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, went on trial on October 4, 2010, in the Netherlands on charges of i...