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"A Letter on Justice and Open Debate", also known as the Harper's Letter, is an open letter defending free speech published on the Harper's Magazine website on July 7, 2020, with 153 signatories, [1] [2] [3] criticizing what it called "illiberalism" spreading across society.
The Faurisson affair was an academic controversy following publication of a book, Mémoire en défense (1980), by French professor Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier, and the inclusion of an essay by American linguist Noam Chomsky, entitled "Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression", as an introduction to Faurisson's book.
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ n oʊ m ˈ tʃ ɒ m s k i / ... free and independent in ... his plea for Faurisson's freedom of speech was published as the preface to the ...
In 2003, in the New Humanist, Chomsky wrote about repression of free speech in Turkey and "the courage and dedication of the leading artists, writers, academics, journalists, publishers and others who carry on the daily struggle for freedom of speech and human rights, not just with statements but also with regular acts of civil disobedience ...
In the first chapter, Finkelstein writes about how Edward Said criticized Noam Chomsky for neglecting to learn from or cite Palestinian authors while writing about the Nakba. Finkelstein defends Chomsky and argues that "it could have been that the Jewish scholarship was of higher quality" than that written by Palestinians. [2]
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that makes it harder to hold people responsible for harassment online could send a troubling symbolic message about free speech to institutions other than ...
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda, first published in 1993, contains Noam Chomsky's criticism of the American media. The articles are available in parts on the Noam Chomsky Archive . Contents
In February 2017, on the 50th anniversary of the essay's publication, a conference was held at University College London. [4] In 2019, a book based on this conference was published entitled, The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years and edited by three Chomsky biographers, Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight and Neil Smith. [5]