One of my students here in Korea, a 50-something executive at a Samsung affiliate, recently articulated something that has been in my mind for a long while. We were discussing a shooting incident in the U.S. that I had read about on the internet. I don’t recall if it was a school shooting or one […]
I’m all for cultural sensitivity, but there is a boundary between what’s right and what’s just silly. The Arabs who were recently booted from a British Airways plane certainly crossed the line into silliness.
Three Arab princesses from the Qatar royal family were sitting next to male strangers. Two of their male entourage members complained about […]
Once again, the West steps on freedom of expression for the fear of pissing off Muslims. Because a particular scene in an opera scheduled at a German opera house depicts the severed head of Muhammad, the police received an anonymous threat. The director of Deutsche Oper Berlin pulled the opera from the fall schedule as […]
As much as Bush harps on freedom and democracy, you would think that America is a model of both. Yet, once again, two American courts have turned a blind eye on one case that is a violation of human rights and another that is an abuse of government power.
In one case, the Washington Supreme Court […]
The freedom which Americans are supposed to enjoy, that which so many Americans have died for since the country’s birth, has taken another blow. This time, it wasn’t from the Bush Administration. Instead, it was from New York’s highest court, which ruled against same-sex marriage in that state.
It wasn’t enough for them to rule against […]