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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: S. maltophilia9/16/2025 7:54:30 PM
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Yet another st.charlie post-mortem:

The Big Chill

Using a Murder to Silence America

I disagreed with most of what the martyred rightwing thought-warrior said. But it would have been far better to have him alive today to argue with. In his famous tract arguing against censorship, the English poet John Milton laid down the foundation of our concept of freedom of speech. Milton’s argument was that Truth and Falsehood should “grapple” in the public square, because in the end, “who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”

The tract was called Areopagitica, a reference to Areopagus, the hill in Athens named after Ares, the god of war. It was published in 1644, at a time of great political upheaval and violence (the British had just beheaded their king and religious conflict....

Nina Burleigh

americanfreakshow.news

First mention of Areopagitica I've seen this week.
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