Issues of online content moderation, too, come into play in any debate over censorship, and Finkelstein doesn't say much about these. Every year we publish a selection of books and pamphlets that address the key issues facing activists and trade unionists.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. When it comes to curbing speech," Finkelstein says, "experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.Moreover, if the "harmful" speech is socially marginal such that hardly anyone believes it, what's the great danger in letting someone say it now and then? He considers it, or dominant tendencies within it, to have degenerated from soaring moral and intellectual heights with Rosa Luxemburg, W. If you would like to learn more of these unusual idioms, take a look at Mixed Idioms on Twitter and tell us your favorites!

You're fallible, you're imperfect vessels… If you unite to change the system, then your psyches will fall into place.Similarly, the idea of "loving one's people" is odd, first in that it amounts to "loving one's self writ large," which, in its narcissism, hardly seems like a noble thing. To what extent should a regime of free speech reign on the university campus, and under what circumstances should an academic's "offensive" speech in the public square result in disciplinary action? Moreover, the very idea of being "proud" of what group one happens to belong to—proud of being black or a woman or gay or trans—is puzzling.