Entries by Amanda Foreman

Charlie Hebdo and a Rubicon Moment for Free Speech

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The writers who protested a PEN award chose their side, but most of the group rejected the assassin’s veto. On balance it would have been awkward if the boycotters of the annual awards dinner of PEN American Center had changed their minds and attended on Tuesday night. At the very least their presence at the […]

The Battle to Include Women

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From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Myrlie Evers to Title IX, the long struggle to ensure that half of humanity is not kept down and out. Since its staid beginnings in 1971 as an annual management symposium at a Swiss ski resort, the World Economic Forum in Davos has grown into the premier talking shop for […]