All my wishes for a better 2002
by Jonathan Wallace
Religion
Freedom of Speech
Steganography My Ass: The Dangers of Private and Self-Censorship in War-Time
We urge the Attorney General to learn from the history of American dissent that free and robust debate is one of the main engines of social and political justice. |
by Ben G. Price The World Trade Organization fits the U.S. definition of an international terrorist network. |
by Mike McGlothlin Not Another Vietnam (December column) The most controversial issue is now whether the war effort requires the U.S. to launch a new campaign against yet another Evil One, Saddam Hussein. |
by Kobutsu Malone, zenji I clearly saw his black gloved right hand and the wooden shaft of the night stick as it hit me across the chest. |
by Ann Fisher Ground zero is a weird NYC hotspot, an exclusive club only a few can get into. |
by Francois Fouche In the light of post-9/11 religious polemics I proffer some thoughts on Catholicism. |
by Farhad Mafie While the Iranian people are suffering under a tyrannical government, certain well-funded individuals and organizations are doing their best to legitimize this barbaric government and welcome it into the world community. |
by Matthew Hogan The villain of Christmas owed his reputation to hostile indifference to lawful traditions of due process, an indifference bred in a war against fundamentalist violence. |
by Seth Finkelstein Perhaps our freedom, rather than being a virtuous trait of our national character, is simply an effect of having many decades where there was no military threat which would prompt any type of office of "homeland security". |
This puts us in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's first society ever to conceive the possibility of censoring Neil Diamond. |
The person on the next treadmill at a fitness center turned and said, aren't we fortunate to be in Wisconsin where we're safe? |
College professors loudly complain that the occupants of the trade towers had it coming to them for imperialism, colonialism, and oppression, and keep their jobs.... |
I would love this book even if
my brother Joe hadn't written it....
Its a funny and nuanced children's story about a kid who believes
he's too big and noisy, and a revelation that comes when he visits
Africa with his parents.
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