Mill’s arguments for freedom of speech omit a crucial assumption. There are people out there — perhaps a vast majority — who don’t seek the truth. They seek comfort in beliefs that they have acquired (often as a matter of belonging to the “right” group), and they seek to enforce...
of preserving a strong business environment, while using token integration to deflect demands for more extensive desegregation.The desegregation experience in Charlotte confirms, in large measure, the conclusions of those who have noted the correlation between the success of desegregation initiatives and...
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat o...
public accommodations segregationschool busingsouthern white moderateswhite self-interestBrown v. Board of EducationBy Davison M. Douglas, Published on 12/01/94Davison M. DouglasSocial Science Electronic PublishingDouglas, D. M. (1994). The quest for freedom in the post-Brown south: Desegregation ...
He emerged as a strong critic of President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy and opposed President Bill Clinton's health care plan. He frequently broke with liberal positions, but opposed welfare reform in the 1990s. He also voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, the North American Free Trade...
The Keene Activity Center (KAC) is a place where (mostly) young libertarians and anarchists in Keene, New Hampshire congregate to talk philosophy, plan activism (including civil disobedience), and generally relax and socialize. Apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been trying very, ve...
When asked about her intent for “later that evening” she testified: “My plan later in the evening was to take a cab back with my friends to their apartment to sleep over.”(GML 15). Ms. XX said that after she was awoken by police knocking on her car window they asked her if sh...
The blocking of Poland's EU funds is an attempt by "left-liberal Western elites" to oust the government, says President Duda. The opposition is complicit in this plan, adds the justice minister, who says Donald Tusk is a "collaborator" in his "genes"[_link] ...
In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the moon shone forevermore. May each of us give ourselves… the gift of letting go… We Must be the Change ...
The Supreme Court got exposed being shady about its plan to drop a bombshell ruling for questionable motives, and their reaction was to shriek that this hallowed institution had been betrayed and needed more privacy for the completion of its public duties, not less. This outburst of Beltway ...