The purpose of free speech
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
The unpopular, the unpatriotic, the annoying – these are the voices we need, because sometimes they’re right.
Tag: free speech
Democracy Rising 18: Deliberation, Free Speech, and Democracy
By Daniel Kemmis, Resilience.org
We all have a sense (though often only a fairly vague sense) that free speech is somehow crucial to democracy. But why should that be the case?
Down the Memory Hole: Trump’s Strategic Assault on Democracy, Word by Word
By Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch
Perhaps instead of hurling insults at President Trump’s incompetence and the seeming disarray of his presidency, it might be worth taking a step back and asking ourselves whether there is indeed a larger goal in mind: namely, a slow, patient, incremental dismantling of democracy, beginning with its most precious words.
The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
To avoid being conned, politically and intellectually, it’s important to examine how a debate is framed and what ideology is advanced by that framing.
Review: “Corporations are not People”
By Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com
The title says it all: Corporations Are Not People.