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We agree with Professors Sutherland and Chafee that a citizen should willingly give information to his government. But, regardless of the hasty generalization of public opinion, the refusal to incriminate oneself is not incriminating in itself. It is not a crime to keep one's mouth shut. In fact, it...
43. In Czechoslovakia, confession of "Jewish bourgeois nationalism" pointed a new trend in Iron Curtain trials. Among the defendants hanged:
This is what nazism and communism demand, and what our won a increasingly collectivized society seems to demand in increasing measure too. However, it is not only totalitarian but indecent, if the judgment of society becomes the standard by which an individual is judged also by those with whom he...
The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) shows more fieriness of purpose than of vision. The author of Death of a Salesman has turned back to 1692 and the Salem witchcraft trials, clearly gripped by their hideous drama, clearly haunted by a conviction of their relevance today. He has watched, across the...
On the eve of turning the U.S. Government over to Ike Eisenhower, Harry Truman last week had a confession. "I could have clotted things up so he wouldn't get straightened out for a year." Truman, talking to a reporter, hastened to add: "Of course, I wouldn't...