Tag: freedom

A Physician’s Daring Escape from the Khmer Rouge Inspires His Future Generations to Cherish Freedom

When I was younger, my father regaled me with stories of his childhood in Cambodia so vivid I felt I could touch or taste them—golden candy made of palm sugar, water buffaloes lumbering through rice paddies (and oh, the leeches that would grab onto your legs!), greens you’d pick at the edge of those same…


9/11, Jan. 6, and the Real Threat to American Freedom

Commentary Every Sept. 11, America is forced to look back at the ghastly experience of that day and remember the trauma we suffered. Recalling it is painful but also necessary. We were united as one, even if only briefly. What brought us together to bear the weight of that still important historical moment? As the…


Prosecutors Request Names of Salman Rushdie Stabbing Witnesses Be Withheld From the Accused

Prosecutors in New York on Sept. 14 called on a Chautauqua County judge to withhold the names of witnesses in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie from alleged attacker Hadi Matar until the trial draws closer. During Matar’s court appearance on Wednesday, District Attorney Jason Schmidt requested that Judge David W. Foley put in place a protection order for…


The Meaninglessness of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’

Commentary It is easy to become trapped by words. They may as well be etched in stone, given that they betray their origins in time and the meanings of the time they were created, even though they evolve in usage. We are now in the jaws of this trap. The political terms of “left” and…


How Taiwan Became More Free Than Australia, for Now

Commentary I’m no fan of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. But credit where credit’s due, she went to Taiwan even when both Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden told her not to. Even more praiseworthy is that once there, she celebrated that the people of Taiwan “have…


Long Live the First Amendment, Now and Forever

Commentary Free speech is under assault. Yes, The Epoch Times was wrongly censored on Twitter. But that is only a symptom. The problem goes so much deeper. This is not a revelatory statement, nor is it particularly controversial. Any honest individual, regardless of political leanings, will admit as much. The only people who would argue…


‘Freedom Is Under Attack Everywhere’: CloutHub CEO

Jeff Brain, CEO of the CloutHub social networking application, told The Epoch Times that freedom and liberty are being crushed in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and other countries across the planet. “There are those that want to push for socialism and tyranny against those that believe in individual freedom and liberty. And that’s…


Tech CEO Takes Stand for Truckers and Farmers in the US and Holland

Jeff Brain, CEO of the CloutHub social networking application, told The Epoch Times that freedom and liberty are being crushed in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and other countries across the planet. “There are those that want to push for socialism and tyranny against those that believe in individual freedom and liberty. And that’s…


California’s Curious Case of ‘Freedom’

Commentary Gavin Newsom’s commercial advertisement in Florida has been justifiably ridiculed as a thinly-veiled political ploy meant to prime audiences for his 2024 presidential run. “Freedom is under attack,” the governor of the Golden State announced. “I urge all of you in Florida to join the fight. Or join us in California. Where we still…


Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’

Commentary In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Governor Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in commercials that California is America’s true “free” state. Part of his ad campaign is to attack Florida—currently run by Newsom’s possible rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Yet, with the…