Free speech, my foot! Part II

by | May 18, 2015 | Politics and Society

So PEN has elevated Charlie Hebdo to the status of poster boy in its campaign to promote freedom of expression around the globe! This is disingenuous at best, dangerous at worst. It is disingenuous because freedom of expression in Western societies is under a far more...

Free speech, my foot! Part I

by | Jan 26, 2015 | Politics and Society

The wave of public emotion that has washed over Europe since the murder of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo is generous in its indirect support of the victims even if that has not been what the placards and slogans are proclaiming. Instead, the demonstrations and...