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Dirty Jokes Revealed and Otto’s Visit to Paris
The Anne Frank House announced that two pages of text covered up with gummed paper in the first diary of Anne Frank had been made legible thanks to new technology. The "new technology" seems to consist of shining a bright light on the back of the page but the Anne Frank House has a way of…
The New Inconvenient History: Expanding Horizons
Abstract Inconvenient History now carries material in a number of foreign languages, and we ask our readers to help us get non-English contributions translated into English for parallel carriage. Inconvenient History also allows video and audio files to be submitted alongside a transcript of their verbal contents. Unchanged is the type and style of content…
Norwegian Cartoon Fails to Respect Holocaust
The Norwegian public broadcasting network NRK has published a satirical cartoon that makes humorous and irreverent references to the Holocaust. This particular cartoon happens also to be the opener in the annual best-of collection from NRK's Satiriks. The topic of the cartoon is the difficulty that university students face in finding decent and affordable housing. Two white students and a…
Discrimination by Religion in Immigration to the US
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump seems to have garnered a good deal of support from American voters with his offer to ban immigration to the US by Muslims. Immigration and religion have a history in the present territory of the United States that goes all the way back to the 16th Century. The authorities in then-Spanish…
Remembering Bradley R. Smith
On Thursday evening, 18 February 2016, I glanced at my email on my phone. The subject of a newly received message struck me like a lightning bolt. “Bradley RIP” was all it said. It wasn’t that it was entirely unexpected. Bradley had been ill for many years, fighting off heart ailments, cancer, and even a bullet…
Letter to “The Economist”
The Economist25 St Jame's StreetLondon SW1A1HG[email protected] Dear Editor We are writing to thank you for your Jun 2nd article Free Speech Under Attack a bit late, (we get our copy of the Economist as a hand-me-down.) It is worth noting that the current wave of censorship received a boost in 1990 with the passage of the Gayssot Act in France, Law No. 90-615…
Letter to The Electronic Intifada
To: The Electronic Intifada From: David Merlin June 21, 2016 Most people tend to see Free Speech as a bulwark of democracy. But not the people at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They view free speech as a danger and they are particularly worried about the internet. $20,000,000 is being spent by the Museum to send out the…
Letter to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt222 Berkeley StreetBoston, MA 02116[email protected] To the Attention of: Linda K. Zecher, Chief Executive OfficerWilliam Bayer, General CounselJill A. Greenthal, Director and Chair of Nominating, Ethics, and Governance CommitteeAndrew Russell, Corporate and Social Responsibility Dear Officers and Directors of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I am writing to commend Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for its years of…
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