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Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in high school at the time, taking Current Events as a class. Our textbook was Newsweek, then a fairly respectable news source.

It was a good year to take it - the 1992 elections, the Branch Davidians, and probably a few other things. We all wrote down our predictions for how the Branch Davidian situation would end, and we were all wrong. (I do not recall my prediction.)

[–] klu9 2 points 10 hours ago

I never would have predicted the cultists' compound would now be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...