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British Authorities Show the Limits of Freedom by Forbidding Treatment for a Critically Ill Child

It’s stunning to see the demise of a most basic freedom — that of parenting — in Britain.

Toddler Alfie Evans was struggling against a brain disease, but the British hospital authorities and courts prevented the parents from seeking other care abroad even though it was made available to the family at no cost to […]

Denmark: Mark Steyn Analyzes the Mohammed Cartoon Crisis in Retrospect

This year of 2015 has been a very bad one for free speech, starting with the Charlie Hebdo slaughter in January by jihadists, as Mark Steyn declared in his Copenhagen speech Saturday. In fact, Steyn observed that it has been “a disastrous 10 years” since the original Danish cartoon controversy that began when the newspaper […]

Geert Wilders Defends Free Expression at His Hate Speech Trial

Apparently there is no double jeopardy in Dutch jurisprudence, as shown by the recent additional trial of Geert Wilders for his committing free speech, following an earlier show trial last year in which he was exonerated.

At the crux is Wilders’ insistence on warning Europe about the threat of Islam. The fact that the charge […]

Islam and Red China: No Fun Permitted

Jamie Glazov’s remarks about the muzzling of a comic in Red China include cogent observations about the deep urge of totalitarians of all stripes to suppress human joy.

Freedom is a kind of vague word until one examines authoritarian systems of thought control to see the specific aspects of humanity that are disallowed, like humor […]