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With their backs against the walls of moral virtue, the censors are prepared for a knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to...
One of the essential ideals, if not practices, of democracy is to protest the rights of minority groups to behave in ways inimical to the majority--providing such expression does not curtail the freedom of others. This is my version of democracy's Scylla and Charybdis: to determine if and...
Coase seems to find little virtue in any form of journalism ("It deals with sensation and scandal, things that can be made entertaining or amusing"). He depicts the press collectively as a self-serving purveyor of misinformation. While journalists presume a high moral standard for others, they are willing to...
Hopkins' third point - and it is the lesson of so great a writer as Proust - is that love is indivisible. Whatever its form of expression, the essence of love never differs. Hopkins never makes any of these points as didactic arguments.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quoted an Arabic expression -"Illi fat mat" (the past is dead)-and recommended that negotiators be guided by it during the days of difficult bargaining ahead. Said Kissinger: "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights face...