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They aren’t identical, Nafisi says.
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Even if you don’t agree with her views, Nafisi says, Hirsi Ali should not have to fear for her life for expressing them.
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Nafisi’s passion was always literature. Religion was an externally imposed reality.
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Nafisi isn’t making up the facts, she says.
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The Prophet’s first wife was his boss.
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No one should be forced to do something they don’t want to do, Nafisi says.
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It is not women who make a big deal out of the hijab, Nafisi says. It is the Islamists.
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Nafisi responds to her critics who allege that Iran has become freer since Nafisi left.
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Nafisi found many of her old students when the book came out.
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There is state power, and then there is the power of the writer to resist the tyranny of reality.
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At some point, it isn’t, Nafisi says.
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Nabokov, Nafisi says, was a lot more political than he let on.
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Trained as a Nabokov scholar, Azar Nafisi formed a very personal bond to the writer’s works.
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Nafisi on the “portable world.”
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Nafisi is puzzled by the simplification and self-righteousness she encounters in America.
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Iran, Nafisi says, is a very paradoxical place.
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Khosro, among others.
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Nafisi was studying in the U.S. when the Revolution broke out in 1979. She chose to go back.
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Be concerned about the rights you think have nothing to do with you, Strossen says.
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The framers of the Constitution were careful to use the word “persons” says Strossen.
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We do what we’ve always done: use our criminal justice system.
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Voting should be easier, Strossen says.
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Strossen is shocked by how underrepresented women are in the media.
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First of all, Strossen says, the government shouldn’t violate individual rights.
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We don’t need the government to give us rights we inherently have.
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Women are persons, too, Strossen says.
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You don’t need lots of money or connections to move the political machine, Strossen says.
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All the national candidates capitulate on civil liberties, Strossen says.
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There are 100 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that the A.C.L.U. does not dispute, Strossen says.
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