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Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
"But having lived through the decline of tenure, I can see clearly that universities in which the majority of the faculty feel unsafe in terms of job security become places where no one feels safe to do anything that might risk upsetting someone." By Alice Dreger.
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“Good men are God in the flesh”
“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
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An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books
More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year. By Erin Blakemore.
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backers are taking us. That’s why I have a favor to ask you, my fellow Americans. By Sarah Kendzior.
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Here’s What Western Accounts of the Kowloon Walled City Don’t Tell You
“If the energy of young designers in both Hong Kong and abroad were focused less on criticizing places that are actually doing fine, there are real urban and social problems in Hong Kong that are currently, like the Walled City once was, being neglected…” By Rory Stott.
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Powerful Letters From Former Slaves To Their Old Masters
Moving messages of both anger and forgiveness.
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How Far Should Societies Go to Prevent Terror Attacks?
Almost everyone is unwilling to do certain things to eliminate terrorism. And that is fortunate, for the endurance of a free society depends upon it. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean
Thoughts on poverty, misery, and the great revolutions of history.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852.
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
“Apparently it has not occurred to anyone that a ‘good American,’ like a ‘good German’ or a ‘good Japanese,’ must be, pro tanto, a bad human being.” By Bertrand Russell. (1922)
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We’re thinking about internet freedom in all the wrong ways
There is no public space on the internet. This needs to change. By Navneet Alang.
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The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now. By Laurie Penny.
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Martin Luther King’s Radical Anticapitalism
King’s vision for civil disobedience cannot be separated from his anticapitalism and his concern with the “evil” of poverty. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
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Ecosophia: Zeno’s Laughter
We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? By John Michael Greer.
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The Black Woman Who Biked Across the US Alone During the 1930s Jim Crow Era
Despite pervasive racism and the weight of the Great Depression, Bessie Stringfield found freedom on the open road. By Giselle Defares.
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Spinoza's philosophy of freedom
Steven Nadler on Spinoza.
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Long Night of Ideas: How can culture counter populists?
The Long Night of Ideas in Berlin took a look this year at growing threats to freedom of expression around the world. A talk at the Maxim Gorki Theater examined what Germany can do to help protect this human right.
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I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America
Lonnie Holley
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How the far right skirts German hate laws
Tommy Frenck is the proud owner and proprietor of The Golden Lion, a traditional, half-timbered guesthouse surrounded by meadows in a small village in central Germany.
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Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists 'unbelievable':...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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