A Day to Celebrate!
“Due to the situation which has evolved as a result of the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent states I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of…
Victims of Rights Violations
Professor Yayla’s Defense
I blogged earlier about the unpleasant experiences of a Turkish friend, Professor Atilla Yayla, whose remarks got him in hot water in Turkey, including suspension from his post as a…
Boaz on Yayla
My colleague David Boaz had an blog entry on the Yayla case in the Guardian’s blog, “Putting Turkey to the Test.” (The comments are a hoot.)
Thank you, Dr. Kameny
Frank Kameny in World War II and in 2005, Always a Soldier My friend Jonathan Rauch has an elegant and touching tribute to a man to whom all Americans owe…
Alexander Litvinenko’s Last Statement
Dictated from his deathbed. He told a friend in his last hours, “The bastards got me but they won’t get everybody.” Note to Antiwar.com and Lewrockwell.com and their apologists for…
Support for Abdelkareem’s Rights
My friend from Guatemala, Constantino Diaz-Duran, who knows something about being threatened and persecuted for his writings on behalf of liberty, has written an essay in the Columbia Spectator, “Free…
A Real Liberal Under Attack in Turkey for Defending Freedom
A True Liberal: Neither Suppress Religion, Nor Impose It A respected friend, Dr. Atilla Yayla, has been dismissed from his teaching position and pilloried in the press in Turkey for…
Please Help a Young Man in Prison in Egypt
You can act to help free Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, who has been detained by the Egyptian authorities for writing on his blog. Regardless of whether you agree with his views…
The Story of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 Retold
(Budapest, 1956: Note the hole in the flag) I saw the movie Freedom’s Fury, about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, this evening in the enormous Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. at…