Zen Politics

Once upon a time there was a country that decided upon a law that made it illegal for a piece of clothing to be worn in public. This country was lambasted for being everything from racist, to misogynist, to anti-human rights. This country’s name was France, and the garment in question is known as the burka. Much of the discussion […]

Censorship takes many forms, from the most blatant to the most subtle. We are used to the blatant because they are easy to recognize, but what happens when censorship takes a subtle route? When an admired veteran of a music scene shows his neo-nazi colors and gets himself arrested in France shortly after having finished serving his sentence for the […]