The curious contradictions of censorial socialists, and a few comments about Charlie Hebdo

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The history of dictatorship and the history of censorship are one. The dictator's name reveals it: dictators say who may speak. Euripedes understood the oppressive nature of censorship—in The Phoenician Woman, he wrote, “This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.” Tacitus knew the sweetness of free speech—in the Histories, he wrote, “It is the rare fortune of these days that one may