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Ponders the diverging roles played by intellectuals in the 1930s Spanish Civil War & the 1990s Balkan war, ie, intervention in Spain & nonintervention in Yugoslavia. It is hypothesized that the difference can be accounted for by developments in the 60 years of intellectual history separating the events. It is argued that historical memory, political commitment, & "common decency" were infringed on in those 60 years. J. Zendejas

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent. We live in an age of corporate and government surveillance of our lives. And our free speech culture has created an anything-goes environment on the web, where offensive and hurtful speech about others is rife. How should we think about the problems of privacy and free speech?

Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon By Nancy C. Lutkehaus Princeton University Press, 2008, 392 pages Becoming Bucky Fuller By Loretta Lorance MIT Press, 2009, 304 pages