Posts Tagged ‘free speech’

What sort of misanthrope campaigns for the ‘right to die’?

Friday, March 30th, 2012

It says a lot about the opinion-forming classes that pretty much the only right they get excited about these days is the “right to die”. They treat the right to free speech as a negotiable commodity which may be snatched away from un-PC people. They have given the nod to the watering down of other Read more

In search of the civilized in today’s anonymous culture

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

This column is late. Months late. Years late, actually. But I admit that it writes itself in my head almost every day. This month, there were two separate situations that require it be said rather than simply thought. Last week, Rush Limbaugh, popular voice of far-right politics, used his position on the airwaves to insult, Read more