The Charles Hebdo affair presents a difficult dilemma to liberals and the left in general. Typically, they have no problem with censorship of views they don’t like. They jump on board campaigns to fire college professors for publishing about race differences or White dispossession, and they shed no tears when some poor soul in the media […]
An obvious rejoinder to Tobias Langon’s article on censorship at The Guardian is that TOO itself does not believe in free speech because we do not post certain comments. My view is that it is entirely reasonable for publications to censor comments, and that is particularly the case with a publication like TOO. We have never censored […]
During the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney was roundly criticized for suggesting the common sense policy that illegal immigrants would deport themselves if there all the goodies were taken away — work, driver’s licenses and any public benefits, etc. Now it turns out, it may be even easier than that if Denmark is any indication. […]
The speech supposedly given by Rep. Steve Scalise to David Duke’s group is now a major national news story (see James Edwards’ article). One might think that this could be a teachable moment, but of course the mainstream media is doing everything it can to ensure that it is not. It’s just another opportunity to call […]
Philip Weiss on a group email that was uncovered by the Sony hack. The The heart of the exchange is [Ryan] Kavanaugh’s [despite his name, Kavanaugh is ethnically Jewish] concern that rage toward Israel over Gaza will result in another Holocaust. … The elite email group includes Sony’s CEO Michael Lynton, Hollywood producers, Republican Israel […]
The New York Times has reacted with predictable umbrage to any suggestion that the media deluge on the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases had anything to do with the murder of the two policemen in Brooklyn. Mr. [Bill] de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton, who stood together on Monday afternoon, tried their best to respond […]
