There’s No Such Thing as “Free Speech”
Writer P.E. Moskowitz discusses how the left can take back the “technology” of free speech.
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Antisemitic Faculty: What Is To Be Done?
by Steven Lubet WHAT SHOULD BE done when a respected professor is discovered circulating vile antisemitic images on social media and endorsing profoundly anti-Jewish conspiracy theories? Should the administration impose sanctions? How should the broader academic community react? These questions have arisen in recent years on campuses across the country, most recently in the cases […]
Read MoreTestimonies, a Story
by Lawrence Bush UNITED STATES FEDERAL District Court, District of Columbia, Docket #A3125. Reilly, Dean & Taszak v. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum et al. Judge Thomas Black presiding. I. Mr. Gold: You are a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ms. Klempner: Yes. Mr. Gold: Your job is to orient visitors in a reception area […]
Read MoreFascism: What It Isn’t and How Not To Fight It
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray. Melville House, 2017, 259 pages. MARK BRAY’S Antifa can perhaps be considered the definitive statement of the movement that leapt to the front page after the events in Charlottesville. Widely though not deeply researched, Bray’s book clearly lays out the historical […]
Read MoreNotes from Charlottesville: Free Speech is Not an Absolute Right
by Ralph Seliger IN RECENT WEEKS, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has drawn criticism for helping the “alt-right” get its permit to demonstrate in Charlottesville. After the fact, the ACLU backtracked, declaring that if it had known in advance that many of these white supremacists would be coming armed, its position would have been […]
Read MoreJanuary 5: The Attorney of Free Speech
Al Bendich, an attorney who in 1957 defended Lawrence Ferlinghetti against obscenity charges for publishing and distributing Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” and in 1962 defended Lenny Bruce in his first of four obscenity trials, died on this date in 2015 at age 85. Bendich was only two years out of law school when he wrote the […]
Read MoreHacking in the Name of the Commons
“NO TRESPASSING” IN THE INTERNET AGE by Jacob L. Perl from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, by Justin Peters. Scribner, 2016, 352 pages. SOMETIMES FRIENDS and I pile into a car and head out to Wisconsin’s […]
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Lenny Bruce’s Mission to America by Lawrence Bush from the Summer 2016 issue of Jewish Currents LEONARD ALFRED SCHNEIDER, who took the stage as Lenny Bruce, died half a century ago on August 3, 1966, age 40. He was not the nice Jewish boy you’d want your daughter or son to marry. A drug abuser, […]
Read MoreDrinks with Lenny Bruce
HIS 50TH YORTSAYT, AUGUST 3RD by Marty Roth Lenny Bruce is dead but his ghost lives on and on Never did get any Golden Globe award, never made it to Synanon He was an outlaw, that’s for sure More of an outlaw than you ever were Lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit’s livin’ on […]
Read MoreMarty Feldman versus the Suits
by Mike Kuhlenbeck “The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.” –Marty Feldman THE SUBVERSIVE WISDOM of comedian Marty Feldman should be chiseled in stone, and his unique likeness carved into a monument celebrating his efforts to slay the Establishment with humor. Martin Alan Feldman was born in north […]
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