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Soldiers of expression: Hate speech, censorship & ethics
What are reasonable limits on freedom of expression? Western Standard contributor Jesse Kline explores the breadth and depth of our freedom to speak our mind, and publish our opinions.
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The Education Machine
Learning and Leviathan: By and large, until, say, 1945, the expansion was fairly harmless. The underlying motives were noble, benevolent, or at worst foolish: a democratic ideal, the need to occupy the young increasingly excluded from the labor market, the...
Blogging For Dollars
Don't anyone tell Dalton McGuinty. He might get ideas: For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog...
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Soldiers of expression: Hate speech, censorship & ethics
What are reasonable limits on freedom of expression? Western Standard contributor Jesse Kline explores the breadth and depth of our freedom to speak our mind, and publish our opinions.
Calgary firm seizes golden opportunity in Colombia
With gold reaching new highs, resource investors are looking to the resource-rich and under-explored country of Colombia. But is the political risk too high?
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Book Review: The Canadian Century
The Canadian Century, by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, is an unusually sobering look at political realities in North America, suggests J.J. McCullough. It may prove, he claims, enormously prescient.
Vigna v. Levant: Serenity, Nausea, and Red Underpants
What goes on at a defamation trial? Read on and I'll tell you, for I bore witness to the spectacle of the ages.
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Obama's reform: Systemic danger once again
Obama is rushing to blame a mythical "free-wheeling" market for the economic crisis. But the truth is that the blame rests with the state, and with government intervention into the economy.
The HRC on Trial, Part 2
The Human Rights Commissions have a laudable past, but are a danger in the present. Ori Rubin takes a good long look at how the original purposes of the HRC have become perverted, and why freedom of speech and expression is in danger of being quashed. (This is part two of a three-part special series)
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Drug abuse is bad, but prohibition is worse
Robert Sharpe with Common Sense for Drug Policy calls mandatory minimum prison sentences a "proven failure."