Blogroll

Weekend Edition: 10-20

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

  • The Death of Free Speech In The West (“The much-misconstrued statement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that free speech does not give you the right to shout fire in a crowded theater is now being used to curtail speech that might provoke a violence-prone minority. Our entire society is being treated as a crowded theater, and talking about whole subjects is now akin to shouting ‘fire!’”)
  • My 6,128 Favorite Books (“No matter what they may tell themselves, book lovers do not read primarily to obtain information or to while away the time. They read to escape to a more exciting, more rewarding world.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Bookish Linkage

Nonbookish Linkage


The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (dissenting), Zorach v. Clauson (1952)

Comments are closed.