Jonathan Zimmerman: Salman Rushdie and the defense of hate speech
Once you have decided that some speech is too hateful to be expressed, you won’t have a leg to stand on when they come after Rushdie — or anyone else.
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Once you have decided that some speech is too hateful to be expressed, you won’t have a leg to stand on when they come after Rushdie — or anyone else.
A big part of the problem is a housing shortage in the US after years of underbuilding relative to demand.
From Bloomberg Opinion: 'As mortgage rates surge to an average of nearly 6% and home values keep climbing, all-in payments are rising by hundreds of dollars a month,' Lisa Abramowicz writes. 'A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting priced out of homeownership. Instead of buying, more of them feel financially compelled to rent, which drives up that price as well.'
Democrats are giving gloomy assessments of the state of the economy, with 83 per cent saying it is either poor or not so good in a new survey.
Does Facebook Inc's declining relevance with teenagers really pose an existential threat to the company? After all, Facebook’s most loyal users are people over age 30 and today's teens are tomorrow's 30-somethings -- if they do not start using Facebook while they're young there's no guarantee they will later in life.