What value do we get from secrecy, and how can public have confidence in work done in secret?
British Secret Intelligence Service chief John Sawyers gave a speech Oct. 28 that has added relevance in wake of recent WikiLeaks release.
Tina Fey accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
“I hope that like Mark Twain, a hundred years from now people will see my work and think, ‘Wow, that is actually pretty racist.'”
“Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin assed forehead eyeball monster?”
Address by Jon Stewart, comedian; delivered at the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2010
The best of the “it gets better” speeches
Fort Worth, Texas City Council member Joel Burns tells gay teens that life will get easier and implores them to “please, live long enough to be there to see it.”
Engaging the Mind and the Spirit
NEW FURMAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR “THE CONSTRUCTIVE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CIVILITY OF OUR PUBLIC DISCOURSE”
America’s Tragic Descent into Empire
“Are you sure you want the U.S. military to be concerned with every inch of the planet?”
“Women’s economic empowerment … will drive the world’s economy”
Coca-Cola chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent argues that women’s equality is “a battle for preserving and enhancing the world’s economic, environmental and social fabric”
WATCH: “The Presidency … Has Become Symbolic of Overreaching”
Address by Mike Pence, Indiana Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives; delivered at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 20, 2010
In Unabashed Praise of an Artist
M.S. SUBBULAKSHMI: “HER LIGHT, LIKE THAT OF A STAR, WAS MEANT TO SHINE THROUGH TIME”
“There is everything right with being an American Muslim”
Amid controversy surrounding the development of a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in Manhattan, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf appeals to politicians, media, business people and citizens.