This quotation, supposedly by French writer and philosopher Voltaire, is often cited by free speech advocates. In a nutshell, it's saying that if you believe strongly in people’s right to ...

Any philosophy which asserts that human experience ... of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. Voltaire History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of ...

He employs a slave dialect around white people and has imagined conversations with Voltaire, Rousseau and Locke ... psychiatrist and political philosopher; Malcolm X, activist leader; Justin Fashanu, ...

a formidable range of reading and a mastery of political philosophy equalled only by her ill-disguised contempt for it. Diderot, a man of exemplary honesty, found it hard to cope with her dual nature.

Philosopher Leif Wenar wades into the fray again, responding in part to critics of his earlier piece.. I'm sympathetic to much that Professor Wenar says, although it touches only indirectly on the ...