AUTHOR

Jeffrey Murphy

Paralegal, researcher & amateur historian.

MEDIA WATCH
Margaret Singer based her work on what she claimed to be the results of studies into the treatment of prisoners of war during the Korean War. Anthony showed that the entire Korean brainwashing scare lacked scientific substance; it was a propaganda campaign concocted to perpetuate the anti-Communist hysteria of the McCarthy era.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
When I read about the European Court’s decision to uphold the firing of a Muslim woman for wearing a headscarf, what came to mind was a quote from the French writer Anatole France: “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”