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Wendy Kaminer
Wanted: a president who believes in liberty
Aside from kooky Ron Paul, all the Republican candidates, as well as President Obama himself, have a very un-American attitude to freedom.
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| Thursday 1 December 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street
By asserting a First Amendment ‘right to occupy’, the occupiers seem to want one rule for themselves and another for everyone else.
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| Monday 14 November 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
We can’t be free without the right to be offensive
In Washington DC, anti-bullying campaigners want to restrict ‘offensive speech’ in public. That would be a disaster for liberty and progress.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The disenfranchised majority kicks back
Occupy Wall Street may be incoherent, but it’s a long overdue reaction to an out-of-touch political class.
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| Thursday 8 September 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
Ten years on, America is at war with itself
It was said that 9/11 would bring Americans together. Instead it sowed fear, paranoia and political rifts.
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| Wednesday 18 May 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
How feminists helped students to ‘unlearn’ liberty
Campus bans on misogynist speech don't advance equality; they assume that women are just too weak to speak back.
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The war between fact and fallacy in US politics
When a senator excuses an erroneous comment by saying ‘it was not intended to be factual’, where’s the line between reality and fantasy?
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| Wednesday 9 February 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
How 400 rabbis are wrong about Glenn Beck
Yes, the cranky Fox talkshow host should be criticised and mocked for his anti-Semitic rants - but he shouldn’t be forced off air.
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| Monday 10 January 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
A dysfunctional moment in American history
Whatever comes of the blame game around the Arizona shooting, we need a more rational political discourse.
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| Tuesday 14 December 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
The assault on Assange is an assault on liberty
A desire to prosecute Assange has become a rare point of consensus in America’s hyperpartisan political scene.
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| Tuesday 26 October 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
The Mama Grizzlies: ‘manning up’ for a fight
For all the muscular femininity of Mama Grizzlies like Sarah Palin, they actually take their cue from the 20th-century women’s temperance crusade.
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| Tuesday 21 September 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
Tea Party: the American right’s political tantrum
Its demands for tax cuts for billionaires and an end to the tyranny of bicycle paths make the Tea Party seem nuts. So why is it so popular?
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| Wednesday 28 July 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
Even grotesque fantasies should not be criminalised
Of course child sexual abuse is a heinous crime that should be punished. But fantasising about child sexual abuse should not be.
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| Tuesday 8 June 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
Learning the lessons of the Gulf oil-gusher
Of course the BP oil spill is not merely metaphorical, but it does capture something about the un-governability of modern America.
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| Friday 30 April 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
The Tea Party: phoney freedom fighters
The right-wing movement is outraged by excessive government - except when it is wielded by Republicans in the name of counter-terrorism.
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| Wednesday 24 March 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
Criticising gays: a secular form of blasphemy?
It’s not enough for libertarians to defend free speech for gay groups and others they agree with. They must defend it for their opponents, too.
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| Monday 8 February 2010 |
Wendy Kaminer
The retarded state of American politics
With Republicans pandering to the hard right and Democrats labelling their liberal critics ‘retards’, the US political scene is in a weird state of stasis.
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| Monday 14 December 2009 |
Wendy Kaminer
America’s screwed-up attitude to expertise
While so-called experts pore over Tiger Woods’ sex life, candidates for high office play up their ordinariness.
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| Wednesday 14 October 2009 |
Wendy Kaminer
Why libertarians should support the right to die
In the US, the war on drugs and federal heavy-handedness are limiting a doctor’s ability to help patients in exceptional pain.
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| Tuesday 18 August 2009 |
Wendy Kaminer
It’s time to teach them Academic Freedom 101
Students should know better than to oppose the appointment of professors they disagree with. Uniformity of opinion only breeds complacency.
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