When, long time ago in USSR, I was heading to the school and bunch of boys were following me and derated with antisemitic troupes: jews stinks, jews are rascals, jews are cowards, jews are greedy..... Is this protected by First Amendment speech? After all they did not beat me up so they certainly traumatized me. Too often the conduct is being considered as opinion. The X note or article in the magazine or movie and even the speaker event can be ignored. I do not have to read or watch them or go to that event. But how the demonstration with the loudspeakers barring my way can be considered as the protected speech I cannot fathom. Where is my right to avoid it? Not to be traumatized by it
I must have missed Emily Yoffe's request for additional prophets, so I'll do it here: Julian Simon, author of "The Ultimate Resource", anti-catastrophist and believer in humanity. Also the winner of the famous bet with Paul Ehrlich. Speaking of whom what is the opposite of a prophet? Whatever it is, the accompanying photo is of Paul Ehrlich.
Hayek! Yes. “Road to Serfdom” is fantastic and should be read as a required text in high school and/or college. Also anything from the ouerve of Dos Passos, especially “The Ground We Stand On”. But also his early Twentieth Century trilogy, USA.
to Jenin Younes:
When, long time ago in USSR, I was heading to the school and bunch of boys were following me and derated with antisemitic troupes: jews stinks, jews are rascals, jews are cowards, jews are greedy..... Is this protected by First Amendment speech? After all they did not beat me up so they certainly traumatized me. Too often the conduct is being considered as opinion. The X note or article in the magazine or movie and even the speaker event can be ignored. I do not have to read or watch them or go to that event. But how the demonstration with the loudspeakers barring my way can be considered as the protected speech I cannot fathom. Where is my right to avoid it? Not to be traumatized by it
I must have missed Emily Yoffe's request for additional prophets, so I'll do it here: Julian Simon, author of "The Ultimate Resource", anti-catastrophist and believer in humanity. Also the winner of the famous bet with Paul Ehrlich. Speaking of whom what is the opposite of a prophet? Whatever it is, the accompanying photo is of Paul Ehrlich.
Hayek! Yes. “Road to Serfdom” is fantastic and should be read as a required text in high school and/or college. Also anything from the ouerve of Dos Passos, especially “The Ground We Stand On”. But also his early Twentieth Century trilogy, USA.
I had forgotten about Ivan Illich. Read him decades ago.............thanks for the reminder!
The Free Press readers and contributors are top shelf, class acts. These letters and comments reflect that and I am so pleased to see them.