Freedom of Expression - Rocky Mountain Voice

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project A lesson and inspiration about standing up for liberty from Milton I have been listening to a lecture series on English literature and busily adding things to my reading list as I go. If you remember a Friday a ways back where I put up an anonymous poem “Yesterday’s Flowers,” that poem was one of them. I wanted to share another, this time directly related to politics: it’s Milton’s Areopagitica. The piece is an essay by Milton, a defense of free speech specific to a free press (in the context of defending himself and what he’d said). I will leave it to you to read the essay and/or an essay by the group FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) on Milton’s piece, linked second below. What...

By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker When American Eagle launched its fall campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney with the cheeky tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” the expected outrage frenzy was immediate. In the ad, the 27-year-old actress says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.” YouTube screengrab // fair use It’s a pun, a play on the words genes and jeans, as even the Los Angeles Times acknowledged. Critics accused the spot of echoing eugenic or white supremacist rhetoric because Sweeney is blonde, blue-eyed, and framed as genetically “blue.” Some even labeled it “Nazi propaganda." ...

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