Chen Guangcheng is a hero. Of that there can be no doubt. This blind, self-taught human rights lawyer has fought for the rights of women and the poor in China and has been courageous in exposing one of the most despicable elements of China's authoritarian regime: its practice of forced...
(29) Comments | Posted February 16, 2012 | 4:11 PM
History is replete with tales of those whose enlightened view of the world became their ultimate undoing. It happened in the early 1400s to John Wycliffe who disregarded papal opposition and translated the Bible into the language of ordinary Englishmen. Wycliffe died of a stroke before he could be charged...
(4) Comments | Posted May 2, 2012 | 11:24 PM