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Standing Up to IlliberalismLONDON – It is a rare political speech that stops me in my tracks.
The last time he gave a speech as noteworthy as this summer’s was 25 years ago, when, as a young man, he helped break the back of communism in Europe.
He delivered a speech in favor of what he called the “illiberal state,” offering five examples of successful “systems that are not Western, not liberal, not liberal democracies, and perhaps not even democracies.”
But imposing limits on free speech, protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, raises difficult practical problems.
To be sure, freedom of expression should almost never be repressed, a point that the United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes emphasized in a dissenting opinion in a case concerning the US Constitution’s guarantee of free speech.
People not just in France, but around the world, want to show their solidarity with the victims and support the fundamental principle of free speech.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship.
But people can choose to avoid speech that others will hear as blasphemy.
The media are never more enthusiastic about free speech than when they see it reddening the faces, with rage or humiliation, of those in power.
All the demonstrators had asked for was free speech, dialogue with the government, independent unions, and an end to official corruption.
Now, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it in a recent speech, American foreign policy will “pivot” toward East Asia.
As Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister, noted in a remarkable speech a few weeks ago, the US security establishment has become convinced that strategic engagement with China has not paid off and should give way to strategic competition – a stance that would encompass all dimensions of the bilateral relationship.
In early October, a particularly harsh speech by US Vice President Mike Pence illustrated Rudd’s point.
In his victory speech, he promised that his administration would “deal fairly with everyone, with everyone – all people and all other nations.”
But, in a sense, foreign policy is fundamentally unfair, as national leaders must always put their country first – a reality that Trump also highlighted in his victory speech.
Bush’s central topic, including his speech to Israel’s parliament, was Iran.
Armenia may have adopted in 1995 a new Constitution with fine phrases about freedom of speech, but both the petty harassments and the mortal threats of the Soviet era remain.
I hear his smutty jokes in which the careful language of politics has been pushed aside in favor of supposedly authentic popular speech at its most elemental – the language, apparently, of the genitals.
In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin famously used the MSC to present his stark worldview, in a speech that presaged Russia’s interventions in Georgia and Ukraine.
Their innovative strategy is to draw on the First Amendment, which protects freedoms such as speech and religion, to argue that patents restrict patients’ freedom of access to information that might enable us to take action to protect our health.
At a time when more and more Russians are being denied passports to travel outside the country, those tempted by authoritarianism would do well to recall the elementary point made by John F. Kennedy in his Berlin speech in 1963.
Byrnes’ speech signaled to the German people a reversal of that punitive de-industrialization drive.
Prior to Byrnes’ speech, and for a while afterwards, America’s allies were not keen to restore hope to the defeated Germans.
A speech by Germany’s leader in a Greek city could go a long way toward delivering it.
But there is no conflict between encouraging free speech and exchange of views, which these rules are meant to support, and the university making its own values clear.
CAMBRIDGE – In a recent speech that received much attention in the United States and abroad, US Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, announced that he would not seek reelection.
According to a CNN political analyst, it was “the most important political speech of 2017 – and one of the most powerful political speeches in the modern era of the Senate.”
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post featured the speech prominently in front-page stories.
In his speech, Flake began by pointing out that President Donald Trump’s words and actions are consistently beyond the pale, bringing disgrace to the office of the presidency.
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