New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies. Ardern used her speech this month to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.
A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it’s unpopular or offensive. That’s the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
With just over a month to go, I feel like film director Mike Leigh trying to justify his improvisational technique. There’s a basic idea, a few actors, a location and the outline of a script. That’s it.
Authoritarians across the Atlantic are taking aim at Americans’ First Amendment right.
Societies that lose the courage to speak plainly about violent ideologies become more brittle, more divided and more vulnerable to manipulation. History does not judge kindly those who chose euphemism over truth, especially when the warning signs are impossible to miss.
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The board will run an open recruitment process for the group chief executive.
The word for today is… dreidel (noun) - 1: a 4-sided toy marked with Hebrew letters and spun like a top in a game of chance 2: a children's game of chance played especially at Hanukkah with a dreidel Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : If your dreidel is spinning beneath
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
