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No one should be forced to do something they don’t want to do, Nafisi says.

It is not women who make a big deal out of the hijab, Nafisi says. It is the Islamists.

Nafisi responds to her critics who allege that Iran has become freer since Nafisi left.

Nafisi found many of her old students when the book came out.

There is state power, and then there is the power of the writer to resist the tyranny of reality.

At some point, it isn’t, Nafisi says.

Nabokov, Nafisi says, was a lot more political than he let on.

Trained as a Nabokov scholar, Azar Nafisi formed a very personal bond to the writer’s works.

Nafisi on the “portable world.”

Nafisi is puzzled by the simplification and self-righteousness she encounters in America.

Iran, Nafisi says, is a very paradoxical place.

Khosro, among others.

Nafisi was studying in the U.S. when the Revolution broke out in 1979. She chose to go back.

Be concerned about the rights you think have nothing to do with you, Strossen says.

The framers of the Constitution were careful to use the word “persons” says Strossen.

We do what we’ve always done: use our criminal justice system.

Voting should be easier, Strossen says.

Strossen is shocked by how underrepresented women are in the media.

First of all, Strossen says, the government shouldn’t violate individual rights.

We don’t need the government to give us rights we inherently have.

Women are persons, too, Strossen says.

You don’t need lots of money or connections to move the political machine, Strossen says.

All the national candidates capitulate on civil liberties, Strossen says.

Is water-boarding torture?

There are 100 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that the A.C.L.U. does not dispute, Strossen says.

Strossen looks to Louis Brandeis’ very broad definition of privacy.

Secrecy was a problem in the Bush administration before the attacks, Strossen says.

Strossen worries about disproportionate drug penalties and the disproportionate effect they have on minority communities.

Strossen has found support on both sides of the aisle.

There is no right to bear unregulated arms, Strossen says.