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By David Merlin ∙ June 22, 2016
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…
By David Merlin ∙ June 21, 2016
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…
By David Merlin ∙ June 2, 2016
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…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 18, 2016
The ever-ascending rocket that is Angela Merkel’s international image is powered by a precious, highly volatile fuel: the deep and wide—but finite—reservoir of good will and prosperity of Germany, the country of whose government she is head. Merkel was educated in the public schools of Germany—the former East Germany, for what that is worth, and…
By Germar Rudolf ∙ February 28, 2016
He is gone. I can’t believe it. It was no surprise. We had plenty of warnings, for years, actually. Still, when the news finally hit me late that Thursday night, I refused to accept it. I was just putting my youngest to bed when my wife told me the news. “Oh, really? Well, it was to…
By CODOH Trustees ∙ February 2, 2016
CODOH has become static, stale, ossified. That’s a complaint we’ve heard a lot lately. If you don’t know what we mean by that, go to CODOHWeb and see how rarely and irregularly new items get posted there. Many events worth reporting have been and are being left out. It’s a shame. There are several reasons…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
*** When we got back from the VA the other night I found that my email account held 38,800 messages. That was about 38,750 too many. What to do? Well, I erased them, everything. I didn’t have time to go through 38,000 emails to look for half a dozen that might be important. It went…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 9, 2014
Ever since its 1979 founding, the US Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations has sought ways to force immigrants suspected of having participated in dealings of the German National Socialist regime of 1933 – 1945 with Jews and other groups detained in labor and concentration camps during World War II to leave their adopted country…
By Natali Cohen Vaxberg ∙ November 4, 2014
A far left Israeli Actress known for staging politically provocative plays caused a stir yet again on Tuesday when she posted a controversial monologue on YouTube which she performed in front of the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto fighters at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. A few weeks ago, the actress, Natali Cohen Vaxberg, arrived at…
By Jett Rucker ∙ September 15, 2014
Where, oh where, is Caroline Sturdy Colls when one needs her? I visited Blowing Rock, North Carolina recently and hiked a lovely trail whose head was located almost “downtown” in this mountain tourist venue. The trail followed a babbling brook called New Years Creek through the forest that surrounds the town. And as I trudged…
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