Perry Link at the NYR Blog reports on the circumstances surrounding the eleven-year sentence in China of writer Liu Xiaobo,”which aims at Liu’s support for Charter 08 and his writings on human rights, democracy, and rule of law in China.” If the purpose of the harsh sentence was to intimidate others, it has not worked […]
The Bell* I
From Trudy Rubin at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a new series @ the sad red earth (H/T Normblog): “Just as every country honors its unknown fallen soldiers, we should honor those who died in solitude and pain for upholding universal principles of human rights.” In this Christmas season, I want to pay tribute to two […]
Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Who said, “To err is human, to be defensive about it divinely oblivious”? Oh, that was me. Not exactly the arresting pith of its model, but it begins my point. It is always bracing to observe the response to criticism of those who devote themselves professionally to the analysis and criticism of others. News organizations, […]