Category: Free Speech
Illiteracy, Psychotherapy, and Self-Esteem — February 1992
The Radical Agenda of the NEA
The National Education Association (NEA), one of the nation’s largest and wealthiest unions, held its annual convention in Kansas City last month and passed dozens of leftwing and…
Double Standards About the First Amendment — July 1990
Playing Politics with the First Amendment
It looks like the start of a long, hot summer of politicians’ posturing about the First Amendment. It’s time we separate what is and what is not a…
Another First Amendment Issue in Satanic Verses
Despite all the ink that’s been spilled over Salman Rushdie’s sensational book, The Satanic Verses, there is another First Amendment issue that hasn’t been addressed. That’s the issue…
The American Civil Liberties Union
A critic wrote a letter-to-the-editor of one of the newspapers that carries my column and complained thusly: “She confuses my calm, rational thinking with facts.” Well, dear reader,…
The Radical Antics of the ACLU
When presidential candidate Michael Dukakis labelled himself a “card-carrying member of the ACLU,” he performed a long-overdue and stunningly significant service to the America people. With that one…