The Crisis of Individualism and other recent articles

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The crisis of individualism by Phyllis Chesler Fox News May 23, 2013 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1119/the-crisis-of-individualism Print Send Comment RSS Share Suddenly, the price of speaking one's mind has gotten very high. You may agree on every issue save one; dare to share your independent or dissident view—and you might shut down the conversation or lose all your friends. Since this kind of censorship and self-censorship has been going on for some time, people who want to stay out of trouble write under pseudonyms, smile carefully at meetings and dinner parties, but do not say what they really think, there is too much at stake. I call this the crisis of individualism and the destruction of independent thinking. It is the death knell of free thought, free speech, critical inquiry, and Western civilization (at its best) as we have known it. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/22/crisis-individualism/ Taking the Fifth by Phyllis Chesler Huffington Post May 23, 2013 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1118/taking-the-fifth Print Send Comment RSS Share Lois Lerner, the Director of the IRS Unit responsible for ruling on applications for tax-exempt status has refused to testify. She is taking the Fifth. There is an eerie resonance in America and especially in Hollywood, when someone "takes the fifth." It harks back to the McCarthy hearings in the early 1950s, when the "good guys" refused to name their friends as communists. We remember how great filmmakers and script writers -- "good people" -- were cruelly blackballed for refusing to name names; instead, they endured decades of poverty and ostracism. We remember them as heroes. Perhaps they were. They would not betray their friends or their own innocent ideals, no matter how misguided they may have been. (Stalin's totalitarian Hell was not the paradise they imagined it was). In any event, those who "took the fifth," refused to knuckle under to state power. "I Sleep in Hitler's Room" - A Wakeup Call by Phyllis Chesler Israel National News May 23, 2013 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1117/i-sleep-in-hitler-room-a-wakeup-call Print Send Comment RSS Share Tuvia Tenenborn has German youth lining up to buy his book on Germany today. It is about an incurable disease. But he can't find a publisher in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I first met Tuvia Tenenbom, the author of the provocatively titled book, "I Sleep in Hitler's Room", a few years ago at a lecture. I was pointed out as "an expert in anti-Semitism," and his wife, Isi, insisted on giving me their very last copy. In 2011, Tuvia had just self-published the book. Tuvia's group, The Jewish Theatre of New York Incorporated, was his publisher and the philanthropist, Michael Steinhardt, funded its publication. Last night, I attended what was advertised as a theatrical presentation of Tuvia's book. The theatre, "The Triad," is a Weimar era-like cabaret. It felt as if I'd walked right onto the set. The scene was funny, a bit disorienting. The address was right—but it was also a Turkish restaurant, "Seven," which occupied that same address. The staircase to the cabaret-theatre was located in the restaurant.
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