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During the 1970s, the City University of New York broadcast Day at Night, wherein James Day interviewed various individuals influential in politics or culture. In 1974, he interviewed I.F. Stone and they discussed Stone’s views on free speech, journalistic independence, tolerance, his motivations for starting his Weekly Reader, and his beginnings in journalism. Some notable quotations follow the …
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…during World War I, as illustrated by Schenck v. United States (1919) . Charles Schenck, the secretary of the Socialist Party of America, was responsible for the distribution of a pamphlet advocating opposition to the draft. For such a heinous crime against American military intervention, the Supreme Court upheld Schenck’s conviction under the Espionage Act …
The recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of Westboro Baptist Church members to protest at military funerals elicits two thoughts. 1) “Justice is always the same in the case of men and things you do not like, as in the case of those you do like.” -Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, …
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