Educated Opinions

A Peppered History The United States, and the world, has a long history of censoring things deemed inappropriate; art and literature have been censored for centuries. I remember when I was a student in high school, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was censored due its profanity and sexual content. Students are now free to read this novel, and it is also included in most curriculums, as it should be; The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. You might say that people censor things which make them uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this means that people, and eventually governments, censor protests whose goals make them uncomfortable. A Step Back In Time Prior to, during, and after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the NAACP was subjected to many instances of censorship due to the civil rights protests they were orchestrating. One notable case is Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, 372 U.S. 539 (1969) [1] . In 1959, during the

Tweets versus North Korea I recently found myself wondering if there is any correlation between President Trump's tweets, specifically those directed at N. Korea, and the increase in N. Korean missile launches and nuclear bomb tests. A lot of people have praised President Trump for standing up to the North Korean tyrant. Other people, probably a number equal to those who praise him, have condemned the president's incessant insults directed at Kim Jung Un via twitter. I find it rather ironic how our president, a man who criticized the public announcement of military plans by past and present administrations during his campaign, insists on forewarning N. Korea through televised and social media comments, such as mentioning the possibility of a coordinated assassination [1] or saying N. Korea "won't be around much longer" [2] . That second one, which President Trump tweeted on the weekend of September 23, 2017, was considered a declaration of war