I am no less a dissident in a society of shopping, shopping and shopping than I was in a society of socialism, socialism and socialism.
This is a functional, self-effacing documentary that does its work – it makes you aware of the significance and the courage of Ai, and of his less celebrated dissident peers.
Forty years into the era that Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn and many less famous dissidents founded, the meaning of human rights has now become familiar.
PARIS — Dominique Broueilh is an unlikely cyberdelinquent, much less a political dissident.
Mr. Bush was essentially saying that electing Mr. Gore would not be like re-electing Mr. Clinton, because Mr. Gore was less protege than dissident.
Its masters can promise consumers more choice, but mass marketing leaves less room for dissident views or eccentric tastes, and discourages any leisure that does not involve spending.
But he gives less attention to dissident voices because, from where he sits, he doesn't see the impact of their views on foreign attitudes toward China.
Vietnam is a bit less harsh with dissidents than China, and its capitalism too is less red in tooth and claw.
So far as Mr Kissinger was concerned, the Soviet military threat was a legitimate source of concern; Soviet treatment of its dissidents less so.
It raises questions about concern for human rights in the West, which once sheltered numerous defectors from the Soviet Union but is now less hospitable to dissidents.
