CATEGORY: Volume 35.01 Spring 2006

Is the right to free expression self evident?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent – that rights are inherent – is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life,...

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The importance of giving offence

There are two questions I want to address here. In a plural society, should it be incumbent on people to refrain from giving offence to other groups and cultures? And should it be incumbent on governments to legislate to ensure that free speech is...

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