Volume 35, Number 2 · February 18, 1988
A Time for Jeremiah
By Murray Kempton
A civilized society cannot reasonably be asked to grant the ruled a sovereign right to throw rocks at their rulers. But can a society long feel assured of its civility once it has taken to arresting men who did no worse than urge the ruled not to buy the coffin nails and bellywashers sold them by their rulers?
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