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Free Speech Isn’t Always Free — Lessons of the Helen Thomas Affair
On blogs and in the comments sections of most of the major newspapers around the country today, Helen Thomas’s retirement has been disparaged countless times as a sign that free speech in America is dead. A careful study of word … Continue reading
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Through the window, into the mind
The written word is fascinating. We are—nearly all of us, it seems—born with an innate drive to communicate with each other. Those of us fortunate enough to live where literacy is common express ourselves, in part, through writing. Some, of … Continue reading
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