So, what are some “basic principles” of First Amendment protection that, according to the Brown majority, don’t vary “when a new and different medium for communication appears”? Here are four crucial ones. First, minors hold “a significant measure of First…
Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leadership forcibly collectivized agriculture starting in the late 1920s. Peasants were compelled to join collective farms, “kulaks” (better-off farmers). Resisters were deported or repressed. Whole villages were blacklisted and their grain confiscated. An internal passport system…
OTTAWA — When CSIS director Dan Rogers meets staff at one of the spy agency’s offices across the country, there comes a time when he asks the bosses to leave the room. Then, he asks spy agency staff how thing are…
(The Center Square) – Independent journalist Nick Shirley blasted California for its political climate and lack of fiscal accountability during an address Tuesday night near the University of Mississippi. California is trying to suppress citizen watchdogs, Shirley warned a crowd of…
As Chancellor John Healey stands at the Dispatch Box today, likely unveiling yet another Budget that hikes taxes and worsens our national debt, he might do well to remember the milestone that the City of London has just marked. Forty…
The day began with terrific news for gherkin-eaters. This was going to save us some 40p a week, although that figure may rise or fall depending on how many gherkins you can push down your gullet. Filthy gherkins! Perhaps one should…
Interviewing Margaret Thatcher was the most exciting and scariest assignment of my career. I was working at SHE magazine as a writing sub in my first job in journalism after university. My editor, Joyce Hopkirk, asked me to do the…
Two decades after it permeated public consciousness, the “Streisand effect” is alive and well and battering the reputations of would-be tyrants across Europe. You’ve seen this social-media phenomenon in action whenever a powerful person’s attempt to suppress online information backfires…
A New York Times editor admitted the paper was likelier to label right-wing experts as conservatives than it was left wingers as liberals. The point was brought up by Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law…
This interview was recorded on Oct. 21 and has been edited for length and clarity. That spectacular ability to practice colonialism now has the rest of the world thinking about solving its problems by moving to where the wealth was taken.
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