Evan Osnos Quotes
On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
Osnos, Evan. Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, 15 May 2014.
Her organization does survey research throughout the world. The “freedom” to conduct a survey does not exist in many if not most of the nations around the world. Even a democratic country like India requires government approval to conduct a survey.
This had been a general, bipartisan principle from WWII through the Gulf War, but in the War on Terrorism, President George W. Bush and his administration deviated from the traditional American view and accused those who were criticizing their counter terrorism of aiding and abetting the enemy and attacked the loyalty and patriotism of their critics.
The important thing about rights is that they exist independent of majority opinion. The majority might want to trample the rights of an unpopular group or individual. Very often Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but the majority views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
He, in a speech to Parliament, had criticized the Iranian Judiciary on several counts, He was then reprimanded for doing so.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
The segment to which he referred were corporations. In his view, the then existing limits on corporate contributions to political campaigns were a “muffling” of the most experienced economic operatives in our society—corporations. Therefore this was censorship of the corporation’s right to freedom of speech. So in his view, in addition to the rights that were abrogated the nation was being blocked from receiving the political voice of one of its best sources of experience and wisdom regarding economic matters. The Supreme Court with the George W. Bush appointees became much more conservative and a few years later, with Scalia leading the charge, the court overruled itself and all its precedents and decided that Corporations were entitled to free speech. See {642321} for an earlier Supreme Court view that corporations were not entitled to the protection of citizens. This Scalia statement was quoted by fellow Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy in one of his opinions.
Evan Lionel Richard Osnos is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China. His 2014 book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. In October 2020, he published a biography of Joe Biden, entitled Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.
