Deauwand News Today

“To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator - what logic is this?” - From Robert Harris’s “Dictator.”

“I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this. - from Homer’s epic tragedy, “The Odyssey.”

Recently, President Yoon Suk Yeol dismissed Korea’s umbrella intelligence agency’s (National Intelligence Service, or NIS) powerful head, Director Kim Kyou-hyun, and oddly, Director Kim’s two chief deputies. Dismissing the three top officials of any country’s defense or intelligence services is unheard of for modern, advanced democracies and world powers.

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place... The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself - anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide…to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime,...

The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. - From Webster’s English Dictionary. Dr. Destiny Thomas, a preeminent scholar of the African American experience, wrote a powerful opinion piece entitled “Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism - And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment” articulating the need for reparations for African Americans, the vast majority of which are descendants of enslaved A...