William Safire's discussion of improving speech by digitally eliminating "y'know" and "uh" and snafus of usage leaves out an important consideration (On Language, Feb. 6).
Gates's piece begins with a discussion of a speech given by August Wilson in 1996 in which the playwright declared that American theatre was an instrument of white culture and that blacks needed an autonomous theatre of their own.
Before the re-enactment, Prof Steven Fielding of The University of Nottingham will provide some historical context, and afterwards there will be a discussion of the speech and what it might mean for politics today.
Rabois had hoped to provoke discussion of free speech, and the subsequent anger was compared by Thiel and Sacks to the Salem Witch Trials, Orwell's 1984, and the Spanish Inquisition.
Aside from a glancing reference from Obama himself to his "economic plan," and a short discussion of a speech in Virginia, we get no sense of whether Obama's economic policies — particularly in contrast to John McCain's would actually make a real difference to the lives of ordinary Americans.
This is the position staked out by Mill in the first two chapters of On Liberty and it is a good starting point for a discussion of free speech because it is hard to imagine a more liberal position.
In a discussion of free speech in society, he described Section 319 of the Criminal Code.
But what typically gets lost in the discussion of free speech, campus radicals, and safe spaces is the voice of actual protestors.
In the discussion of Pausanias' speech in Plato's Symposium, Symonds stresses that the age of the younger partner was strictly defined.
But what the amiable billionaire and I did not realize was that a festival session that morning had already set in motion a chain of events that would remind everyone, once again, that India encourages discussions of free speech but not free speech itself.
