Militant Muslims disrupted a lecture on free speech at Uppsala University in Stockholm earlier this month. The police were aware this might happen and were on hand to stop the violence before anyone was seriously hurt. Lars Vilks, the presenter, was assaulted and his eye glasses were smashed on his face, but he was otherwise [...]
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has frequently called criticism upon itself with bizarre decisions regarding what freedoms to defend and what encroachments upon freedom to ignore. In general, their rule has roughly been “civil liberties worth protecting are ones we approve of.” That’s not so abnormal; most of politics consists of people acting in [...]
Time and time again, our oh-so-lovely government tries to overstep their boundaries and make people suffer because they don’t like what they hear. But, thanks to our intelligent and visionary founding Fathers, we have rights such as the 1st amendment. I can say pretty much whatever I want except for a few simple things without [...]
Vaclav Havel, Pavel Landovsky, and Vaclav Maly wrote this fantastic letter in support of Lui Xiabo, a Chinese political activist who has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for exercising his freedom of speech. The three famous dissidents then printed the letter and delivered it to the Chinese embassy in Prague. The Chinese were [...]
As a one-time resident of the Netherlands, a headline like “Freedom of Speech Under Attack in The Netherlands” feels quite odd to me. The people of the Netherlands, the Dutch, are a fantastic study in human decency. In all of my travels, I have never encountered a nation of people more in touch with common [...]
The recent Supreme Court ruling protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans, even if they are corporations or labor unions, causes many of us to pause to think about the nature of corporations and similar organizational structures. Corporations are merely groups of people. Corporations have no rights that people don’t have, but they also don’t [...]
