{"id":1563,"date":"2012-06-14T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hlpr\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:23:10","slug":"my-methods-are-new-and-are-causing-surprise-to-make-the-blind-see-i-throw-dust-in-their-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2012\/06\/14\/my-methods-are-new-and-are-causing-surprise-to-make-the-blind-see-i-throw-dust-in-their-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy methods are new and are causing surprise. To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Hudson Kingston<\/p>\n

<\/em>Stately, plump<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>[David Cameron] came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.*<\/em>\u00a0And though he may have tried to use this Christological imagery to\u00a0cut<\/a>\u00a0the worldwide public news offerings his government graciously provides, he seems to have failed in delivering on the economic recovery\u00a0he said<\/a>\u00a0his cuts would bring. In fact, it\u2019s very nearly Bloomsday and it seems his projections were wrong. He seems to have bought a\u00a0double-dip<\/a>\u00a0recession with austerity instead.
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\nThe prime minister of the UK seems\u00a0As decent a little man as ever wore a hat<\/em>, but some commentators believe that he may be hiding\u00a0horrible secrets<\/a>. With the News of the World scandals that followed on the heels of his attempt to constrict the BBC, it seems that he was ready to turn the free press over to a man who is known for presenting but one side of the story. Now it is possible that the scandal is driving a\u00a0wedge<\/a>\u00a0through his coalition\u00a0\u2013 something to watch in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Bloomsday<\/a>, mentioned above,\u00a0is the quintessential Irish holiday, held every June 16th<\/sup>, to celebrate the \u2013 arguably \u2013 greatest novel of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century and the writer who created it, James Joyce. While\u00a0Ulysses<\/em>\u00a0is now acknowledged by many as a masterpiece, it was nearly never allowed into the United States, because it risked running afoul of our puritanical 1920s\u00a0obscenity law. The reason for this 90th<\/sup>anniversary in June is that Joyce commemorated one day in his young life by making it the center of his country\u2019s great epic. The book details the wanderings and interactions of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, two iterations of Joyce\u2019s stream of consciousness. Unfortunately for the readers of last century, Joyce and his characters had a few salaciously dirty thoughts now and then.<\/p>\n

In the Cameron era the BBC is\u00a0constrained<\/a>\u00a0in what it can report, and the threat of regulation does not encourage hope for the ongoing health of the fourth branch of government. However, with news that the British public press is going to spend Bloomsday\u00a0celebrating<\/a>\u00a0an Irish book that barely made it into the U.S. for its indecency, there is some hope left.\u00a0Everything speaks in its own way.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Perhaps the resilience of the UK\u2019s media in face of a multi-pronged attack is a testament to what Joyce sought in writing a book that reads, in part, like a newspaper.<\/p>\n

In any case,\u00a0From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.<\/em>\u00a0This Saturday please do raise a glass (regardless of contents) to Leopold Bloom, the journalists of the world, and all people who hope to thwart censorship \u2013 be it a result of budget cuts or state-permitted monopoly. In some countries it has been a while since a thought could be banned for being inappropriate, but in others, democracy falters\u00a0for the lack<\/a>\u00a0of a free press.<\/p>\n

If you are of a literary sort please read this copy of Stephen Gillers\u2019s\u00a0law review article<\/a>.\u00a0It may be a novelette in length, but it tells a story of art\u2019s victory over the censor that American lawyers should be well acquainted with. As bad as contemporary censorship may seem sometimes, it is good to know there are people like Judge Hand out there to protect freedoms.<\/p>\n

*All\u00a0italicized words<\/em>\u00a0drawn from Ulysses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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