in the NY Times: Today’s News Quiz. The only thing I’d add is that our own democracies, though robust, could use a little refreshing as well. All this stuff about holding people without charges and summary judgements and general reduction of civil liberties in the post 9/11 world is profoundly anti-democratic. And it is my deep belief that the only clear way out of this whole mess is to strengthen our democracy, not to dilute it with hysterical laws and such.
Archives for 2001
Also noted
is this year’s World AIDS Day observance: Link and Think. Last year I participated in A Day Without Weblogs, and I’ll certainly do my best to do the same this Dec. 1.
I haven’t been able
to find the time to update this site in a couple of days, but some really interesting stuff has been published in that time. Foremost among these is Timothy Garton Ash’s article in The New York Review of Books: Is There a Good Terrorist? [hat tip to Rebecca’s Pocket]
William Safire
: Seizing Dictatorial Power. “Misadvised by a frustrated and panic-stricken attorney general, a president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens. Intimidated by terrorists and inflamed by a passion for rough justice, we are letting George W. Bush get away with the replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts.”
glish.com
is back!
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