- The New York Review of Books: The Right to Ridicule
Ronald Dworkin on the cartoon riots and self-censorship. He says that publishing those cartoons was a bad idea, but that censoring them would be even worse. "Religion must observe the principles of democracy, not the other way around." - Commonweal | Anthropology with a difference: Mary Douglas at 80
Paul Baumann on Mary Douglas - a nice treatment of her work, very laudatory, with an understandable (it's from Commonweal) focus on the implications for modern Catholicism. - CNN.com - School board OKs return to classroom after sex change - Feb 28, 2006
This is a strange story, but see my related post for why I included it.
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